000435275 000__ 05135cam\a2200433\a\4500 000435275 001__ 435275 000435275 005__ 20210513152114.0 000435275 008__ 110822s2012\\\\enka\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000435275 010__ $$a 2011035585 000435275 020__ $$a9780521429597 000435275 020__ $$a0521429595 000435275 020__ $$a9780521728737 (pbk.) 000435275 020__ $$a0521728738 (pbk.) 000435275 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn750401469 000435275 035__ $$a435275 000435275 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dUKMGB$$dNHI$$dDEBBG 000435275 042__ $$apcc 000435275 043__ $$ae-uk---$$an-us--- 000435275 049__ $$aISEA 000435275 05000 $$aPR149.F35$$bC36 2012 000435275 08200 $$a823/.0876609$$223 000435275 24504 $$aThe Cambridge companion to fantasy literature /$$cedited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. 000435275 260__ $$aCambridge ;$$aNew York :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2012. 000435275 300__ $$axxiv, 268 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm. 000435275 440_0 $$aCambridge companions to topics. 000435275 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000435275 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: Introduction Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn; Part I. Histories: 1. Fantasy from Dryden to Dunsany Gary K. Wolfe; 2. Gothic and horror fiction Adam Roberts; 3. American fantasy, 1820-1950 Paul Kincaid; 4. The development of children's fantasy Maria Nikolajeva; 5. Tolkien, Lewis, and the explosion of genre fantasy Edward James; Part II. Ways of Reading: 6. Structuralism Brian Attebery; 7. Psychoanalysis Andrew M. Butler; 8. Political readings Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint; 9. Modernism and postmodernism Jim Casey; 10. Thematic criticism Farah Mendlesohn; 11. The languages of the fantastic Greer Gilman; 12. Reading the fantasy series Kari Maund; 13. Reading the slipstream Gregory Frost; Part III. Clusters: 14. Magical realism Sharon Sieber; 15. Writers of colour Nnedi Okorafor; 16. Quest fantasies W. A. Senior; 17. Urban fantasy Alexander C. Irvine; 18. Dark fantasy and paranormal romance Roz Kaveney; 19. Modern children's fantasy Charlie Butler; 20. Historical fantasy Veronica Schanoes; 21. Fantasies of history and religion Graham Sleight. 000435275 520__ $$a"Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at the history of fantasy since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who edited The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005)"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000435275 520__ $$a"Fantasy is not so much a mansion as a row of terraced houses, such as the one that entranced us in C. S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew with its connecting attics, each with a door that leads into another world. There are shared walls, and a certain level of consensus around the basic bricks, but the internal decor can differ wildly, and the lives lived in these terraced houses are discrete yet overheard. Fantasy literature has proven tremendously difficult to pin down. The major theorists in the field - Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, Kathryn Hume, W. R. Irwin and Colin Manlove - all agree that fantasy is about the construction of the impossible whereas science fiction may be about the unlikely, but is grounded in the scientifically possible. But from there these critics quickly depart, each to generate definitions of fantasy which include the texts that they value and exclude most of what general readers think of as fantasy. Most of them consider primarily texts of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. If we turn to twentieth-century fantasy, and in particular the commercially successful fantasy of the second half of the twentieth century, then, after Tolkien's classic essay, 'On Fairy Stories', the most valuable theoretical text for taking a definition of fantasy beyond preference and intuition is Brian Attebery's Strategies of Fantasy (1992)"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000435275 650_0 $$aFantasy literature, English$$xHistory and criticism. 000435275 650_0 $$aFantasy literature, American$$xHistory and criticism. 000435275 650_0 $$aFantasy literature$$xHistory and criticism$$xTheory, etc. 000435275 650_0 $$aFantasy literature$$xAppreciation. 000435275 7001_ $$aJames, Edward,$$d1947- 000435275 7001_ $$aMendlesohn, Farah. 000435275 85200 $$bgen$$hPR149.F35$$iC36$$i2012 000435275 85642 $$3Cover image$$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805214/29597/cover/9780521429597.jpg 000435275 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1117/2011035585-b.html 000435275 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1117/2011035585-d.html 000435275 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1117/2011035585-t.html 000435275 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:435275$$pGLOBAL_SET 000435275 980__ $$aBIB 000435275 980__ $$aBOOK