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In the mirror of the past : of fantasy and history / edited by Bogdan Trocha, Aleksander Rzyman and Tomasz Ratajczak.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Alternative histories (Fiction)--History and criticism.
- Alternative histories (Fiction).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These days, we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events. Searching for a way to understand them, we turn to mythic archetypes still present in our culture. The authors of these essays pose questions about the reliability of the archetypes found in tradition, history, and scattered mythologemes. The essays in this collection deal with the presence of mythic time in modern speculative fiction, such as fantasy and alternate histories, and discuss major mythologemes and their functi...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; EDITORS; INTRODUCTION; "MAKE IT OLD"; DAVID GEMMELL'S INTERTEXTUAL TREATMENT OF THE ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY IN HIS LION OF MACEDON AND DARK PRINCE NOVEL DUO; URSULA LE GUIN'S EARTHSEA CYCLE; "HEALING FICTION?"; ANDREA HAIRSTON'S REDWOOD & WILDFIRE; MYTHIC CYCLE VS. LINEAR HISTORY IN FANTASY; THE LONELINESS OF THE ANCIENT GREEK HERO
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781443867672
- 1443867675
- OCLC:
- 892243485
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