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Author | : Brian M. Thomsen |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2003-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765304568 |
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The ancient tales of long-dead civilizations to the wild success of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, fantasy has fired our imaginations for as long as there has been story. Whether sweeping sagas of fantastic adventures or cautionary tales told around the campfire, fantasy is deeply woven into the very fabric of humanity, wearing many faces and coming in many flavors. But what fantasy is distinctly American? The American Fantasy Tradition sets out to answer this very question. This comprehensive critical anthology of American fantasy literature applies the groundbreaking theorems of such esteemed American literary critics as Leslie Fiedler, Richard Chase, and Irving Howe to the genre of fantasy in an effort to delineate the true American tradition of fantasy from the more prominent Anglo-European canon, breaking it down into three distinctive strains: The American Tale: Folk, Tall, and Weird Stories that might be considered fables or legends, much like the epics of the Age of Heroes from the classical eras of Rome and Greece, or the tales of the fairy folk from the European tradition, or the fables of Aesop. Fantastic Americana Stories set directly within the American historic landscape, much as the Arthurian tradition is set within the confines of British history. Lands of Enchantment in Everyday Life Stories that involve what might be called the American spirit, focusing on worlds that exist in the shadows of our own, just beyond Rod Serling’s famous signpost for The Twilight Zone.
Author | : Brian Attebery |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1980-11-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Includes chapters on L. Frank Baum and Ursula Le Guin, with material on Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Branch Cabell, H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Edward Eager, and James Thurber, among others.
Author | : Brian Attebery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608050096 |
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Brian Attebery considers eccentricities and history in the writings of, Baum, Ruskin, MacDonald, Morris, Lewis and Tolkien in a concise survey of the different definitions and characteristics of the genre of fantasy, first exploring it as a whole, then defining its influence on American folklore.
Author | : Herman Limberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : R.W.B. Lewis |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2009-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022621950X |
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Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.
Author | : Brian Attebery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1992-03-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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In the early chapters, the author sorts out some of the confusion about the term fantasy, distinguishing the fantastic as a technique from fantasy as a popular formula and a literary genre. Looking back to the early reception of Tolkien's trend-setting epic fantasy, he points out how critical theory at the time was simply unable to account for either the strengths or the weaknesses of The Lord of the Rings. By contrast, critical methods developed for coping with postmodernist metafictions are shown to apply equally well to the genre of fantasy. Having worked primarily with older fantasies in his study of The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, Attebery focuses here on important recent examples such as Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Suzette Haden Elgin's Ozark Trilogy, and John Crowley's Little, Big.
Author | : Richard Hofstadter |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2011-12-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307809668 |
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The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him—Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples—Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.
Author | : Joe Hill |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544449770 |
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A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories published during 2014.
Author | : Edward James |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-01-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107493730 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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).
Author | : Antoine Bandele |
Publisher | : Bandele Books |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2020-06-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0999848399 |
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