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“The books are true while reality is lying…” Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account of how the novels of these writers do and do not sustain politically insightful critique of the real world, while bringing intellectual and ethical concerns to bear on the popular Fantasy form.

Fantasy fiction --- Fantasy fiction, English --- Fantastic fiction --- Heroic fantasy (Fiction) --- Fantasy literature --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Pratchett, Terry --- Pullman, Philip, --- Miéville, China --- Mʹevilʹ, Chaĭna --- МЬевиль, Чайна --- פולמן, פיליפ, --- Pratchett, Terence David John --- Пратчетт, Терри --- Pratchett, Terri --- פראצ'ט, טרי --- Prats'eṭ, Ṭeri --- Пратчэт, Тэры --- Pratchėt, Tėry --- Пратчэт, Тэрэнс Дэвід Джон --- Pratchėt, Tėrėns Dėvid Dz︠h︡on --- Пратчет, Тери --- Pratchet, Teri --- Πράτσετ, Τέρι --- Πράτσετ, Τέρενς Ντέιβιντ Τζων --- Pratset, Terens D̲eivint Tzōn --- テリー・プラチェット --- プラチェット, テリー --- Purachetto, Terī --- Пратчетт, Теренс Дэвид Джон --- Pratchett, Terens Dėvid Dzhon --- Прачет, Тери --- Pračet, Teri --- Прачет, Теренс Дејвид Џон --- Pračet, Terens Dejvid Džon --- Претчетт, Террі --- Pretchett, Terri --- Претчетт, Теренс Девід Джон --- Pretchett, Terens Devid Dz︠h︡on --- 泰瑞·普萊契 --- 普萊契, 泰瑞 --- Pulaiqi, Tairui --- Bradshaw, Georgina --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pratchett, Terence David John, --- Пратчетт, Терри, --- Pratchett, Terri, --- פראצ'ט, טרי, --- Prats'eṭ, Ṭeri, --- Пратчэт, Тэры, --- Pratchėt, Tėry, --- Пратчэт, Тэрэнс Дэвід Джон, --- Pratchėt, Tėrėns Dėvid Dz︠h︡on, --- Пратчет, Тери, --- Pratchet, Teri, --- Πράτσετ, Τέρι, --- Πράτσετ, Τέρενς Ντέιβιντ Τζων, --- Pratset, Terens D̲eivint Tzōn, --- テリー・プラチェット, --- プラチェット, テリー, --- Purachetto, Terī, --- Пратчетт, Теренс Дэвид Джон, --- Pratchett, Terens Dėvid Dzhon, --- Прачет, Тери, --- Pračet, Teri, --- Прачет, Теренс Дејвид Џон, --- Pračet, Terens Dejvid Džon, --- Претчетт, Террі, --- Pretchett, Terri, --- Претчетт, Теренс Девід Джон, --- Pretchett, Terens Devid Dz︠h︡on, --- 泰瑞·普萊契, --- 普萊契, 泰瑞, --- Pulaiqi, Tairui, --- History and criticism --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- Kearns, Patrick