Writing and Fantasy (Crosscurrents) - Softcover

Sullivan, Ceri

 
9780582309111: Writing and Fantasy (Crosscurrents)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0582309115 ISBN 13: 9780582309111
Verlag: Routledge, 1999

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Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore the sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves away from two conventional fields of discussion: psycho-analytic explanations of the mode, where fantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and concepts of fantasy as a cultural phenomenon by nineteenth-century individualism. The essays in this volume cover the classical period to the twentieth century, and each study focuses on how fantasy acts as a strategy for an individual to contain or exploit specific historical and cultural moments. Multiple genres of fantasy are explored, ranging from ghost stories to feminist utopias and new research is presented which explores areas such as twentieth-century architecture and 'ideal homes'.

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Ceri Sullivan Barbara White

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Crosscurrents

General Editors:
J. B. Bullen, Professor of English, University of Reading,
Neil Sammells, Dean of Humanities, Bath Spa University College,
Paul Hyland, Head of History, Bath Spa University College

Crosscurrents is a major series which has grown directly out of existing developments in higher education. The move towards modular courses and the evolution of interdisciplinary work at all levels of intellectual inquiry have expanded the horizons of the old subject areas. This series is aimed to show how English Studies is meeting the challenge of these developments by drawing upon the discourses of history, politics, race and gender studies in particular. Subjects range from those which are well-established within the prevailing structure of English Studies to new and unusual areas which have emerged directly out of innovative interdisciplinary work.

Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the social, where fantasies are the production of nineteenth-century individualism. Chapters run from the classical period to the twentieth century, each focusing on a local reading of how fantasy acts as a strategy to contain or exploit specific historical and cultural moments. A wide variety of sites are investigated including the feminization of the wild west, originary and maternal spaces, highwaywomen, financial credit, and the ideal home. Multiple genres containing fantasy are explored, ranging from ghost stories to feminist utopias.

Aids to the reader include an introduction summarising recent discussions of fantasy, illustrations dealing with visual fantasies, and an annotated bibliography. The new research presented here will be of great interest to academics and students in literature, history and cultural studies departments who are working in the field of the historical development of concepts of fantasy, cultural opposition, and the imbrication of politics and modes of representation.

Ceri Sullivan is a lecturer at the University of Wales, Bangor. Barbara White is Director of Studies of ¿Advanced Studies in England¿, Bath.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0582309115
ISBN 13 
9780582309111
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
308
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