Basic categories of fantastic literature revisited. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrzej Wicher, Piotr Spyra and Joanna Matyjaszczyk.
• Editors: Wicher, Andrzej; Spyra, Piotr; Matyjaszczyk, Joanna
• Contents: The fantastic as a technique of redynamizing mimetic fiction -- Todorov's fantastic and Aguirre's numinous as the stages of an uncompleted rite of passage -- Gothic time and non-Euclidean spaces : temporal geometries of terror in the works of H.P. Lovecraft -- "People have a tendency to rationalize what they can, and forget what they can't" : on the ambivalence of the fantastic universe in Buffy the vampire slayer -- "He howl'd fearfully; said he was a wolf" : lycanthropy in English Renaissance tragedy and contemporary popular fiction -- The reinvention of lycanthropy in modern fantasy literature -- Robert E. Howard's Conan cycle as modern epic -- On the theories of kingship in George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire -- Allegorizing the fantastic : a Spenserian reading of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere -- Critical dystopia for young people : the freedom meme in American young adult dystopian science fiction -- Freaks of flesh and mind : (de)generation in the works of Clive Barker -- Staging the fantastic : Tolkien, Todorov, and theatricality in contemporary British drama.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (199 pages)
• Subjects: 809.915; Literature: history & criticism; Fantasy literature -- History and criticism; Literary theory; Literary studies: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443871433
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