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245 04 The Cambridge companion to fantasy literature /|cedited by
       Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. 
264  1 Cambridge ;|aNew York :|bCambridge University Press,
       |c[2012] 
264  4 |c©2012 
300    xxiv, 268 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Cambridge companions to topics 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and 
       index. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 00 |tIntroduction /|rEdward James and Farah Mendlesohn --
       |gPart I.|tHistories:|g1.|tFantasy from Dryden to Dunsany 
       /|rGary K. Wolfe;|g2.|tGothic and horror fiction /|rAdam 
       Roberts;|g3.|tAmerican fantasy, 1820-1950 /|rPaul Kincaid;
       |g4.|tThe development of children's fantasy /|rMaria 
       Nikolajeva;|g5.|tTolkien, Lewis, and the explosion of 
       genre fantasy /|rEdward James --|gPart II.|tWays of 
       Reading:|g6.|tStructuralism /|rBrian Attebery;|g7.
       |tPsychoanalysis /|rAndrew M. Butler;|g8.|tPolitical 
       readings /|rMark Bould and Sherryl Vint;|g9.|tModernism 
       and postmodernism /|rJim Casey;|g10.|tThematic criticism /
       |rFarah Mendlesohn;|g11.|tThe languages of the fantastic /
       |rGreer Gilman;|g12.|tReading the fantasy series /|rKari 
       Maund;|g13.|tReading the slipstream /|rGregory Frost --
       |gPart III.|tClusters:|g14.|tMagical realism /|rSharon 
       Sieber;|g15.|tWriters of colour /|rNnedi Okorafor;|g16.
       |tQuest fantasies /|rW.A. Senior;|g17.|tUrban fantasy /
       |rAlexander C. Irvine;|g18.|tDark fantasy and paranormal 
       romance /|rRoz Kaveney;|g19.|tModern children's fantasy
       |rCatherine Butler;|g20.|tHistorical fantasy /|rVeronica 
       Schanoes;|g21.|tFantasies of history and religion /
       |rGraham Sleight. 
520    "Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment and the 
       recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in 
       imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the
       Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century
       popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the 
       fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and
       his many imitators, however, it has become a major 
       publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors
       of fantasy look at the history of fantasy since the 
       Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different 
       codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy and 
       examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of 
       fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of 
       the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. 
       The book is edited by the same pair who edited The 
       Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo 
       Award in 2005)"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "Fantasy is not so much a mansion as a row of terraced 
       houses, such as the one that entranced us in C.S. Lewis's 
       The Magician's Nephew with its connecting attics, each 
       with a door that leads into another world. There are 
       shared walls, and a certain level of consensus around the 
       basic bricks, but the internal decor can differ wildly, 
       and the lives lived in these terraced houses are discrete 
       yet overheard. Fantasy literature has proven tremendously 
       difficult to pin down. The major theorists in the field - 
       Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, Kathryn Hume, W.R. 
       Irwin and Colin Manlove - all agree that fantasy is about 
       the construction of the impossible whereas science fiction
       may be about the unlikely, but is grounded in the 
       scientifically possible. But from there these critics 
       quickly depart, each to generate definitions of fantasy 
       which include the texts that they value and exclude most 
       of what general readers think of as fantasy. Most of them 
       consider primarily texts of the nineteenth and early 
       twentieth century. If we turn to twentieth-century fantasy,
       and in particular the commercially successful fantasy of 
       the second half of the twentieth century, then, after 
       Tolkien's classic essay, 'On Fairy Stories', the most 
       valuable theoretical text for taking a definition of 
       fantasy beyond preference and intuition is Brian 
       Attebery's Strategies of Fantasy (1992)"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Fantasy literature, English|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Fantasy literature, American|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Fantasy literature|xHistory and criticism|xTheory, etc. 
650  0 Fantasy literature|xAppreciation. 
650  0 Criticism|xEuropean|xEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
       |xbisacsh. 
650  7 LITERARY CRITICISM|xEuropean|xEnglish, Irish, Scottish, 
       Welsh.|2bisacsh 
700 1  James, Edward,|d1947- 
700 1  Mendlesohn, Farah. 
830  0 Cambridge companions to topics. 
856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://
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       b.html 
856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/
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