UID:
almafu_9959241778102883
Format:
1 online resource (251 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-937931-9
,
0-19-931606-6
,
0-19-931608-2
Content:
Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an argument about its nature and importance.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Fantasy as a route to myth -- Taxonomic Interlude: a note on genres -- Make it old: the other mythic method -- Silver lies and spinning wheels: Christian myth in MacDonald and Lewis -- Romance and formula, myth and memorate -- Expanding the territory: colonial fantasy -- Angels, fantasy, and belief -- Literalist Interlude: burning Harry Potter -- The postcolonial fantastic -- Coyote's eyes: situated fantasy.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-931607-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-11414-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
