9780415938907
Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination
Richard Mathews
ISBN 13: 9780415938907
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Softcover
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Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, Mathews shows how fantasy uses the elements of enchantment and the supernatural to explode everyday reality and create profound insights into essential human realities. Fantasy gives us an appreciation of the genres roots in antiquity and an understanding of its history. The reader becomes a witness to how it later evolved into a reaction and counterpoint to the tradition realistic rational fiction in western literature. Further, we see how fantasy is related to but distinct from such genres as gothic horror and science fiction.
While giving the reader a solid sense of the genres characteristics and history, Mathews also looks at particular exemplary works like Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle in detail. This text will be of inestimable value to anyone seeking to apprehend the nature and almost unlimited creative possibilities of a genre with a deep history and a long future.A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's history, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.
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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 9.016 by 5.984 inches. (256 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. Using a broad definition of fantasy to incude myth, fokore, egend and fairy tae, this survey of the genre wi entice as we as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystica or magica. Beoved authors ike J. R. R. Tokien, Ursua K. Le Guin, Wiiam Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined cosey.Preface Acknowedgments Chronoogy 1. From Antiquity to Infinity: The Deveopment of Modern Fantas 2. Forging Fantasy Paradigms: Sword Tempered by Water (Wiiam Morris's The We at the Word's End 3. Shaping Modern Fantasy: Cosmic Light and Dark (J. R. R. Tokein's The Lord of the Rings 5. Shining Past and Future: The Persistence of Cameot (T. H. White's The Oce and Future King 6. Darkening Antiquity: Sword and Sorcery (Robert E. Howard's Conan Series) 7. Competing the Circe: Language, Power, and Vision (Ursua K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cyce) Notes and References Bibiographic Essay Recommended Tites Index Richard Mathews is a poet and professor of Engish at the University of Tampa. Widey pubished, he is the author of Adiss Unbound , The Cockwork Universe of Anthony Burgess , Words Beyond the Word , Lightening from a Cear Sky and Subtropica Specuations . (Paperback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415938902 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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