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1 online resource (276 pages) |
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Postmodern Studies ; 52 |
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Postmodern studies ; 52.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part 1 The Politics of (In)Sight; Introduction; Fantasy Sight: ''Real Being''; One Metaphor and Domain Maps: Parallax Sight; Two From Mind to Real: Ontological Sight; Three Theory, Fantastic Beings, Space: ''Purificational'' Sight; Four Seeing Visions: Experimental Sight; Five Dwarfs, Hermaphrodites, Lovers: Fantastic Sex; Part II -- the Politics of Blindness; Six A Plague of Punctum: Postmodern Excess; Punctum 1: Words; Punctum 2: Narratives; Punctum 3: Images; Punctum 4: Theory; CONCLUSION |
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""What It Seems It Is ... "" (Is a World of Seeming)Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"The books are true while reality is lying ..." Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pratchett, Terry -- Criticism and interpretation
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Pullman, Philip, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Miéville, China -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Miéville, China fast |
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Pratchett, Terry fast |
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Pullman, Philip, 1946- fast |
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Fantasy fiction, English -- Political aspects
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Fantasy fiction, English -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Fantasy fiction, English
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Politics and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401211000 |
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9401211000 |
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