Basic Categories of Fantastic Literature Revisited.
A unique collection of essays on selected aspects of science-fiction, fantasy and broadly understood fantastic literature, unified by a highly theoretical focus, this volume offers an overview of the most important theories pertaining to the field of the fantastic, such as Tzvetan Todorov's def...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The fantastic as a technique of redynamizing mimetic fiction
- Todorov's fantastic and Aguirre's numinous as the stages of an uncompleted rite of passage
- Gothic time and non-Euclidean spaces : temporal geometries of terror in the works of H.P. Lovecraft
- "People have a tendency to rationalize what they can, and forget what they can't" : on the ambivalence of the fantastic universe in Buffy the vampire slayer
- "He howl'd fearfully; said he was a wolf" : lycanthropy in English Renaissance tragedy and contemporary popular fiction
- The reinvention of lycanthropy in modern fantasy literature
- Robert E. Howard's Conan cycle as modern epic
- On the theories of kingship in George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire
- Allegorizing the fantastic : a Spenserian reading of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
- Critical dystopia for young people : the freedom meme in American young adult dystopian science fiction
- Freaks of flesh and mind : (de)generation in the works of Clive Barker
- Staging the fantastic : Tolkien, Todorov, and theatricality in contemporary British drama.
