The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le GuinBrian 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. |
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... authors are aware of one another . I found this to be true to a surprising degree in American fantasy . My authors read each other , lunched together , even illustrated one another's work . But perhaps I should not have been surprised ...
... authors are aware of one another . I found this to be true to a surprising degree in American fantasy . My authors read each other , lunched together , even illustrated one another's work . But perhaps I should not have been surprised ...
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... author's full engagement . They remain curious and amusing fragments . A similar work by Virginia W. Johnson , The Catskill Fairies , has various tribes of fairies telling their stories to a snowbound little boy.39 After an adequate ...
... author's full engagement . They remain curious and amusing fragments . A similar work by Virginia W. Johnson , The Catskill Fairies , has various tribes of fairies telling their stories to a snowbound little boy.39 After an adequate ...
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... author's own culture . With Alexander we move into the category of modest or half- successes . These are works whose ... authors of such stories have worked in modes other than fantasy , and what they add to Tolkien is some quality or ...
... author's own culture . With Alexander we move into the category of modest or half- successes . These are works whose ... authors of such stories have worked in modes other than fantasy , and what they add to Tolkien is some quality or ...
Contents
Fantasy and the Folk Tradition | 16 |
Belief Legend and Romance | 33 |
Fantasy for American Children | 59 |
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