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The A to Z of Fantasy Literature
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Authors: Brian Stableford
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-13 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Helen Young
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre.
Fantasy Literature
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Mark A. Fabrizi
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-11 - Publisher: Springer

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Fantasy literature, often derided as superficial and escapist, is one of the most popular and enduring genres of fiction worldwide. It is also—perhaps surpris
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Edward James
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories o
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-03 - Publisher: Tin House Books

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Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from on