The A to Z of Fantasy Literature
Title | The A to Z of Fantasy Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Stableford |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | 568 |
Release | 2009-08-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780810863453 |
Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
The A to Z of Fantasy Literature
Title | The A to Z of Fantasy Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Brian M. Stableford |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 499 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN |
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Edward James |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2012-01-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107493730 |
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Fantasy Literature
Title | Fantasy Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Marshall B. Tymn |
Publisher | New York : R. R. Bowker Company |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fantastic fiction, American, Bibliography |
ISBN | 9780835214315 |
Handbook for the study of fantasy literature with a comprehensive introduction to the genre, an annotated bibliography of over 240 core works, and research aids for fantasy scholars
A Short History of Fantasy
Title | A Short History of Fantasy PDF eBook |
Author | Farah Mendlesohn |
Publisher | Libri Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2012-06-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1907471642 |
Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel. Tracing the history of fantasy from the earliest years through to the origins of modern fantasy in the 20th century, this account discusses contributions decade by decade--from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Lewis's Narnia books in the 1950s to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. It also discusses and explains fantasy's continuing and growing popularity.
The Fantasy Literature of England
Title | The Fantasy Literature of England PDF eBook |
Author | Colin N. Manlove |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2020-05-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1532677553 |
In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy's modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subversive, and children's fantasy. In them all England has led the world, with authors as different as Chaucer, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Salman Rushdie.
Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction
Title | Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hunt |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 181 |
Release | 2005-08-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826477607 |
Edited by Morag Styles and written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering the key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published, read and studied. This book provides an illuminating guide to literature that creates alternative worlds for young readers. Focusing on the work of Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman, the book considers both the genre of ?alternative worlds? and the distinctiveness of these authors? texts, including Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass.