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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... fact explainable if we extrapolate from the world and the science that we know . Most escape fiction , as C. S. Lewis points out , utilizes unconvincing characters and unlikely events , but it makes every effort to place them in a ...
... fact explainable if we extrapolate from the world and the science that we know . Most escape fiction , as C. S. Lewis points out , utilizes unconvincing characters and unlikely events , but it makes every effort to place them in a ...
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... fact predate A Wonder Book , though neither was of the same quality or had anything near the impact of Hawthorne's work . Both books are in a sense authorless : one because it consists of retellings of traditional European tales and the ...
... fact predate A Wonder Book , though neither was of the same quality or had anything near the impact of Hawthorne's work . Both books are in a sense authorless : one because it consists of retellings of traditional European tales and the ...
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... fact to underline the strangeness of the whole experience . The one phrase that most effectively fixes the whole scene in mind is that which has the grasshopper " looking backward with all his eyes . " Fourth , there is an underlying ...
... fact to underline the strangeness of the whole experience . The one phrase that most effectively fixes the whole scene in mind is that which has the grasshopper " looking backward with all his eyes . " Fourth , there is an underlying ...
Contents
Fantasy and the Folk Tradition | 16 |
Belief Legend and Romance | 33 |
Fantasy for American Children | 59 |
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