A modernist fantasy : modernism, anarchism, & the radical fantastic / James Gifford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gifford, James, 1974- author.

Series:

ELS monograph series ; no. 111.

ELS monograph series ; no. 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction, English.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Great Britain.

Anarchism in literature.

Radicalism in literature.

Local Subjects:

Anarchism in literature.

English fiction.

Fantasy fiction, English.

Modernism (Literature).

Radicalism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 287 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Modernist fantasy : modernism, anarchism, and the radical fantastic

Place of Publication:

Victoria, BC : ELS Editions, [2018]

Summary:

"'A modernist fantasy' unearths a legacy of politically radical and formally experimental modernist fantasy fiction, a red thread running from the 1890s to the 1970s. But the recuperation of that lost tradition is as important as revising the critical traditions that excluded it from the start, an exclusion that challenges how we understand modernism itself. The endless definitions of genre and rhetorics in fantasy and science fiction are transformed here by modernist studies as a catalyst. In both stances, anarchist critical and artistic praxis conjures a pathway to flexible new links between fields and ideas." -- From the rear cover.

Contents:

Hobgoblin modernism : a preface

Introduction

1. Fantasy : an invented history & material theory: There & back again in criticism's quest for fantasy ; Anarchism & late modernism ; A new narrative: anarchism & late modernist fantasy

2. Near modernist fantasy : a long time ago & far, far away: Morris: the Utopia beyond the world ; Lord Dunsany: the reactionary King of Elfland ; Mirrlees: ideology-in-the-mist ; Conclusion

3. Late modernist fantasy: Modernism's apocalypse & high fantasy ; Peake's romantic Gormenghast ; Anderson rebreaking Andúril ; Powys, Potius, & the anarchist Myrddin Wyllt ; Treece & the romantic apocalypse in fantasy ; Conclusion

4. May(be) 1968 : new (left) currents in fantasy: Legacy of lateness ; Le Guin: not a gift given ; Moorcock: or glorious anarchy in the body ; Delany: materialist fantasy & the collared subject ; Conclusion

Conclusion: Disappointment in radical magic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.

Other Format:

Gifford, James, 1974-, author. Modernist fantasy.:

ISBN:

9781550583939

155058393X

OCLC:

1048826218