Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth / Brian Attebery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attebery, Brian, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Fantasy literature.

Literature and myth.

Myth in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

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 myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an argument about its nature and importance.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-937931-9

0-19-931606-6

0-19-931608-2

OCLC:

863045320