Strategies of Fantasy - Hardcover

Attebery, Brian

 
9780253310705: Strategies of Fantasy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0253310709 ISBN 13: 9780253310705
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the readers strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), Attebery makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within postmodern literature rather than as a simple exercise of nostalgia. Attebury examines recent and classic fantasies by Ursula K. Le Guin, John Crowley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, and Gene Wolfe, among others. In both its popular and postmodern incarnations, fantasic fiction exhibits a remarkable capacity for reinventing narrative concentions. Attebery shows how plots, characters, settings, storytelling frameworks, gender divisions, and references to cultural texts such as history and science are all called into question the moment the marvelous is admited into a story.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Brian Attebery is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Idaho State University. He is author of The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, one of the pioneering works in the filed of fantasy scholarship.



Brian Attebery is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Idaho State University. He is author of The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, one of the pioneering works in the filed of fantasy scholarship.

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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253310709
ISBN 13 
9780253310705
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Anzahl der Seiten
180
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