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Ellipse of uncertainty : an introduction to postmodern fantasy / Lance Olsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olsen, Lance, 1956-
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy 0193-6875 ; no. 26.
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy. 0193-6875 ; no. 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy literature--History and criticism.
- Fantasy literature.
- Postmodernism.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 134 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Greenwood Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [119]-125.
- ISBN:
- 0313255113
- OCLC:
- 14188135
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