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13 of the Best Books and Articles on: Fantasy Literature

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1.

The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin » Read Now
by Brian Attebery. 212 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Bridges to Fantasy » Read Now
by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Robert Scholes. 231 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 2nd: 1980: University of...literature, and, by extension, fantasy literature in general, are literary...
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Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy » Read Now
by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Robert Scholes. 210 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 3rd : 1981 : University...the case of popular literature like science fiction and fantasy, but in the mass paperback...whom recent...
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Mindscapes: The Geographies of Imagined Worlds » Read Now
by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin. 324 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction » Read Now
by George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin. 256 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 7th: 1985: University...they might "turn to fantasy as a virgin soil, and give to English literature an entertainment comparable...as...
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Other Worlds: The Fantasy Genre » Read Now
by John H. Timmerman. 124 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Comedy of the Fantastic: Ecological Perspectives on the Fantasy Novel » Read Now
by Don D. Elgin. 214 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...western humanity, the fantasy novel arose and...place in western literature. Drawing upon an...statement in all fantasy literature of an ecological...this book: that...
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Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy » Read Now
by Lance Olsen. 140 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze...
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This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise.
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Worlds within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women » Read Now
by Thelma J. Shinn. 216 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety...
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Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety of secondary sources in literature, women's studies, science fiction/fantasy scholarship, and comparative mythology.
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Teaching Fantasy Novels: From the Hobbit to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire » Read Now
by Phyllis J. Perry. 186 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library
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The Transcendent Adventure: Studies of Religion in Science Fiction/Fantasy » Read Now
by Robert Reilly. 272 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Fantastic in Literature and Film...Fiction and Fantasy Carl B. Yoke...fantasy--or to fantasy but not to...from "mundane" literature is not impossible...freest form of...
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The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-Century Children's Fantasy Literature » Read Now
by David Sandner. 162 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Many Victorian and Edwardian fantasy stories began as extemporaneous oral tales told for the delight of children and, like Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows, were written down by chance. These fanciful stories, told with child-like spontaneity, are analyzed here to argue their role in...
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Many Victorian and Edwardian fantasy stories began as extemporaneous oral tales told for the delight of children and, like Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows, were written down by chance. These fanciful stories, told with child-like spontaneity, are analyzed here to argue their role in the revolution not only of children's literature, but of the general conception of childhood. In contrast to the traditional moral tales of the 18th century that were written with the express purpose of instructing children how to become adults, this literature that Sandner identifies as the "fantastic sublime" reveled in the imagination and the enjoyment of reading. By looking at the structure of the Romantic sublime and inventing and exploring the structure of the fantastic sublime, this work offers a completely new way to examine 19th-century children's fantasy literature, and perhaps, fantastic literature in general.
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Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature » Read Now
by Donald Palumbo. 312 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sexuality, few sound fantasys depths. Yet the body of fantastic literature is itself overwhelming...resurrection symbol in fantasy literature, is also a sexual...