Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth / Brian Attebery.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 240 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199316069 (hbk.) :; 9780199316076 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Fantasy literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Literature and myth | Myth in literatureDDC classification: 809.38766 LOC classification: PN56.F34 | A88 2014
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.