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Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth /

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 my...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Attebery, Brian, 1951- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Table des matières:
  • 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.