In Defence of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945

ISBN-13: 9780367336851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str.

Ann Swinfen

Opis

First published in 1984, Ann Swinfen presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive view of fantasy: what it is, what it tries to achieve, what fundamental differences distinguish it from mainstream realist fiction. She concentrates on the three decades from 1945, when a new generation of writers found that Tolkein had made fantasy ‘respectable’.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Abbreviations.  1. Fantasy and the Marvellous  2. Talking Beasts  3. Worlds in Parallel  4. Secondary Worlds  5. Layers of Meaning  6. Experience Liberated  7. Idealisms: Religious and Philosophic  8. Idealisms: Social and Political  9. The Perilous Realm.  Notes.  Select Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Ann Swinfen