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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... popular literature falls into the same pattern : indeed , the line is thin between the broadside ballad and the newspaper eulogy , or the oral and written tall tale . Both kinds of narrative , folk and popular , have shaped American ...
... popular literature falls into the same pattern : indeed , the line is thin between the broadside ballad and the newspaper eulogy , or the oral and written tall tale . Both kinds of narrative , folk and popular , have shaped American ...
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... popular , and in later years he started a school of illustration , teaching , among others , N. C. Wyeth , Jessie Willcox Smith , and Maxfield Parrish.27 He and his students had much in common in style and aims with the Pre - Raphaelite ...
... popular , and in later years he started a school of illustration , teaching , among others , N. C. Wyeth , Jessie Willcox Smith , and Maxfield Parrish.27 He and his students had much in common in style and aims with the Pre - Raphaelite ...
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... popular romance , nor might his later reaction against the illusions engendered thereby have been so caustic . When he did begin to infuse his stories with modern irony , Pyle refused to illustrate any more of them because he felt them ...
... popular romance , nor might his later reaction against the illusions engendered thereby have been so caustic . When he did begin to infuse his stories with modern irony , Pyle refused to illustrate any more of them because he felt them ...
Contents
Fantasy and the Folk Tradition | 16 |
Belief Legend and Romance | 33 |
Fantasy for American Children | 59 |
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