Fantastic literature : a critical reader
Introductions to each essay, presented in full or excerpted for the most relevant commentary, situate the reader in the history of fantasy literature and the criticism it has inspired.New and important here are the claims for the early development of fantasy literature from the 18th century sublime.
Print Book, English, 2004
xii, 357 p. ; 25 cm.
9780275980535, 0275980537
1277453510
IntroductionPhaedrus (388-366 B.C.E.), PlatoThe Poetics (33-323 B.C.E.), AristotleAn Apology for Poetry (1595), Philip Sidney"The Fairy Way of Writing" (1712), Joseph AddisonLetters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), Richard HurdOn The Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (1773), Anna Laetitia Aikin (Barbauld)Letter (1797), and Biographia Literaria (1817), Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOn the Supernatural in Poetry (1826), Ann RadcliffeOn the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition (1827), Walter ScottFrauds on the Fairies (1853), Charles DickensFairy Stories (1868), John RuskinThe Fantastic Imagination (1890), George MacDonaldFairy Tales (1908), G. K. ChestersonThe Uncanny (1919), Sigmund FreudIntroduction to Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927), H. P. LovecraftCritics (1956), Damon KnightMythos of Summer: Romance (1957), Northrop FryeCharacteristics of Genre and Plot Composition in Dostoevsky's Works (1963) Mikhail BakhtinDefinitions of Territory: Fantasy (1970), Italo CalvinoThe Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1970), Tzvetan TodorovFrom Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973), Ursula Le GuinIntroduction to Modern Fantasy (1975), Colin ManloveThe Fantastic and Fantasy (1976), Eric RabkinOn the Evolution of a Word (1979), Stephen PrickettMagical Narratives: The Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism (1981), Fredric JamesonThe Encounter with Fantasy (1982), Harold BloomLiterary Fantasy and Ecological Comedy (1985), Don D. Elgin"Fantasy" from Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy (1986), Gary WolfeNameless Things and Thingless Names (1987), Lance OlsenFantasy as Mode, Genre, Formula (1992), Brian AtteberyPhantasmagoria and the Metaphysics of Modern Reverie (1995), Terry Castle"Fantasy" from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), John CluteJoseph Addison: First Critic of the Fantastic (2000), David SanderFabling to the Near Night (2000), Jane YolenIntroduction to Fantasy and Marxism (2002), China Mieville
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