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This volume focuses on language and ethics in literary genres, such as dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy, that depict encounters with alterity. Indeed, so-called "genre literature" embodies a heuristic model that dramatizes and exacerbates these encounters by featuring exotic, subhuman or post-human beings that defy human knowledge, elements particularly prevalent in science fiction and fantasy. These genres have often been regarded as an entertaining or escapist field that does not lend itself to ethical and poetical reflections, limiting its scope to a hollow and servile repetition of g

Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Science fiction, English --- Fantasy literature, English --- History and criticism.

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The first substantial study comparing Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, this book examines a selection of their speculative/fantastic novels from a feminist postcolonial perspective. Reading Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake alongside Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last Man, the author brings out the broad convergences in the way the two authors-separated by more than a century-perceive the dialectic of science, gender and the processes of history and history-making. Both autho.

Fantasy literature, English --- English fantasy literature --- Fantastic literature, English --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Study and teaching (Elementary)

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""This book focuses on Lewis as a teacher, how he opens doors by challenging 20th-century views... Two ideas run through and unify the book. The first is that in all his writing Lewis encourage 'radical key' to all Lewis's critical and imaginative writings. Hart's aim is to show that there is in Lewis a single, integrated, systematic theory of literature focused on the importance of imagination and language. ""The book raises many of the right questions about Lewis and explores them in a stimulating and informative way."" -Christianity and Literature

Myth in literature. --- Lewis, C. S. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lewis, Jack, --- Hamilton, Clive, --- Clerk, N. W., --- Lewis, Clive Staples, --- Lʹi︠u︡is, Klaĭv, --- Ruisi, C. S., --- Льюис, Клайв Стейплз, --- Льюис, К. С. --- לואיס, קליב סטפלס --- C. S. ルイス, --- Luvīs, Sī. Is., --- Luwīs, Sī. Is., --- لويس، سى. اس. --- Christian literature, English --- Fantasy literature, English --- History and criticism.

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Representing a decade of scholarly activity within the C. S. Lewis & Inklings Society (CSLIS), this book challenges readers to examine the complex factors that shaped the theological perspectives, cultural concerns, and literary conventions in the works o

Inklings (Group of writers) --- English literature --- Fantasy literature, English --- Christianity and literature --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Tolkien, J. R. R. --- Lewis, C. S. --- MacDonald, George, --- Williams, Charles, --- Lewis, Jack, --- Hamilton, Clive, --- Clerk, N. W., --- Lewis, Clive Staples, --- Lʹi︠u︡is, Klaĭv, --- Ruisi, C. S., --- Льюис, Клайв Стейплз, --- Льюис, К. С. --- לואיס, קליב סטפלס --- C. S. ルイス, --- Luvīs, Sī. Is., --- Luwīs, Sī. Is., --- لويس، سى. اس. --- Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel, --- Tolkin, Dzh. R. R. --- Толкин, Дж. Р. Р. --- Tolkin, Dzhon Ronalʹd Ruėl, --- Ṭolḳin, Dzshey. R. R., --- טולקין, ג׳.ר.ר --- טאלקין, דשיי. ר. ר., --- 톨킨, J. R. R, --- Tʻolkʻin, Jon Ṛonald Ṛuel, --- Williams, Charles Walter Stansby, --- Stanhope, Peter, --- Author of Dealings with fairies, --- Author of Ranald Bannerman, --- Dealings with fairies, Author of, --- Mac Donald, George, --- Ranald Bannerman, Author of, --- מקדונלד, ג׳ורג׳ --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Oxford (England) --- Rhydychen (England) --- Oxford (Oxfordshire) --- Intellectual life --- MacDonald, Geo.,