Strategies of FantasyIndiana University Press, 1992 M03 22 - 180 páginas Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader's strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), Attebery makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within postmodern literature rather than as a simple exercise of nostalgia. Attebury examines recent and classic fantasies by Ursula K. Le Guin, John Crowley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, and Gene Wolfe, among others. In both its popular and postmodern incarnations, fantasic fiction exhibits a remarkable capacity for reinventing narrative concentions. Attebery shows how plots, characters, settings, storytelling frameworks, gender divisions, and references to cultural texts such as history and science are all called into question the moment the marvelous is admited into a story. |
Contenido
ONE Fantasy as Mode Genre Formula I | 1 |
TWO Is Fantasy Literature? Tolkien and the Theorists | 18 |
THREE Fantasy and Postmodernism 36 | 36 |
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Imagination and the Arts in C.S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds Peter J. Schakel Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern Christopher Palmer Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |