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With its origins in the earliest oral and written texts, fantasy can be linked to the magical stories of myth, legend, fairy tale, and folklore that appear in cultures worldwide. As a discrete genre, literary fantasy uses elements of enchantment and the supernatural to break free of everyday reality; in its modern form, it melds timeless mythic patterns with contemporary individual experiences and emphasizes the relationship between the individual...
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Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants - these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. This title shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact.
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Mirabile Dictu covers in six separate chapters the works of Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser. Its broad aim is to provide a select cross section of works in the Middle Ages and Renaissance in order to examine and compare for the first time the marvelous in the light of epic genre, in the light of literary and critical theory (both past and present), and in the light of historically and culturally determined representational practices....
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A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, and popular culture, this work contains summaries of more than two hundred novels, reputed to be Gothic, published in English between 1790 and 1830. Also included are indexes of titles and characters and an extensive index of characteristic objects, motifs, and themes that recur in the novels -- such as corpses, bloody and otherwise,...
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"C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are two of the most interesting and entertaining writers of fantasy in the twentieth century. Certainly they are two of the most popular, and in their own domain, they have been considered among the very best of popular practitioners. The literary and artistic merits of their work are in themselves enough to justify an extended discussion of their work. But they have another interest for the student of intellectual and...
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