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English fiction --- Fantasy fiction, English --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales, English --- Supernatural in literature --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- Thematology --- English literature --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism
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The fantastic has occupied the literary imagination of readers and scholars across historical, theoretical, and cultural contexts. Representations of the fantastic in literature rely on formal and generic types, tropes, and archetypes to mediate between depictions of "fantasy" and "reality." Present in myth and folklore, the gothic and neo-gothic, and contemporary and mainstream fantasy, the fantastic reach stretches into many conceptions of literature over time. "Curious, if True": The Fanta...
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David Lindsay was a writer of fantasy fiction who died in 1945. He belongs to the tradition of modern fantasy, as distinct from science-fiction, which has its roots in the writings of, amongst others, George Macdonald, and has been maintained in the work of Charles Williams, Mervyn Peake and J. R. R. Tolkien. Lindsay took up a writing career rather late in life, however his name was known within literary circles and two eminent writers expressed their admiration for his work: L. H. Myers and C. S. Lewis. Indeed, Lewis wrote that Lindsay's most famous book, A Voyage to Arcturus, had exerted a strong influence on his own work. Interest in Lindsay has been growing steadily, and in this book, Bernard Sellin has written a comprehensive survey of Lindsay's life and work, analysing the thematic patterns of Lindsay's settings, plots and characters. It will be read with profit by all those who are interested both in Lindsay and in the genre of fantasy literature.
Novelists, English --- Fantasy fiction, English --- History and criticism. --- Lindsay, David, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction, English --- English fiction --- Roman fantastique anglais --- Roman anglais --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism
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Pullman, Philip --- Theology in literature --- Young adult fiction, English --- Fantasy fiction, English --- History and criticism --- Pullman, Philip, --- Young adult fiction, English - History and criticism --- Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism --- Pullman, Philip, - 1946- - His dark materials
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Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis may have belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the mid-twentieth-century's triple threats of fascism, utilitarianism, and industrial capitalism. In Fire and Snow, Marc DiPaolo explores how the apocalyptic fantasy tropes and Christian environmental ethics of the Middle-earth and Narnia sagas have been adapted by a variety of recent writers and filmmakers of "climate fiction," a growing literary and cinematic genre that grapples with the real-world concerns of climate change, endless wars, and fascism, as well as the role religion plays in easing or escalating these apocalyptic-level crises. Among the many other well-known climate fiction narratives examined in these pages are Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, The Handmaid's Tale, Mad Max, and Doctor Who. Although the authors of these works stake out ideological territory that differs from Tolkien's and Lewis's, DiPaolo argues that they nevertheless mirror their predecessors' ecological concerns. The Christians, Jews, atheists, and agnostics who penned these works agree that we all need to put aside our cultural differences and transcend our personal, socioeconomic circumstances to work together to save the environment. Taken together, these works of climate fiction model various ways in which a deep ecological solidarity might be achieved across a broad ideological and cultural spectrum.
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Fantasy fiction, English --- Fantasy fiction, American --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- Detective and mystery stories, American --- Science fiction, English --- Science fiction, American --- History and criticism. --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- History and criticism
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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Children's stories, English --- Fantasy fiction, English --- History and criticism. --- Jones, Diana Wynne --- Wynne, Diana, --- ג׳ונס, דיאנה ווין --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- jeugdliteratuur --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- History and criticism --- fantasy
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