Fantasy /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego :
Greenhaven Press,
[2002]
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| Series: | Greenhaven Press companion to literary movements and genres.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction : Literature of impossibility
- What is fantasy?
- 1. Understanding the fantasy genre
- Fantasy's roots : ballads, folktales, and legends / Brian Attebery ; Fantasy literature both reflects and denies reality / Jules Zanger ; Building blocks of fantasy / Susan Dexter ; Re-evaluating some definitions of fantasy / Edmund Little ; Fantasy books for adolescents inspire and empower / Tamora Pierce ; Fantasy allows children to question the status quo / Jeanne Murray Walker
- 2. Exploring themes and conventions
- Integral sense of wonder / William Senior ; Symbolism and allegory / Ann Swinfen ; Quest / John H. Timmerman ; Comic fantasy / C.N. Manlove ; Characterizations in Tolkien's Lord of the rings / Dwayne Thorpe ; Robert Jordan and the longing for a premodern past / Edward Rothstein
- 3. State of the genre today
- Women are changing the face of fantasy / Charlotte Spivack ; Publishing fantasy literature / David G. Hartwell ; Fantasy and censorship / Michael O. Tunnel.