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Fantastic Literature A Critical Reader

David Sandner

Book Code: C8053

ISBN: 0-275-98053-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98053-5

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376 pages, n/a

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2004

List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Reviews:

[S]anders doesn't simply dig up excepts from mainstream criticism that can be applied to fantasy; he actually reverses the equation, demonstrating the significant role that fantastic literature has always played in the development of literary criticism itself.
—SFRA Science Fiction Research Association April/May/June 2005

Description: Unprecedented in range and scope, this volume serves as a record of and reference for the development of fantasy literature. Working to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, opening a dialogue wherever possible, Sandner presents the full range of debates concerning the fantastic and its relationship to the sublime, the Gothic, children's literature, romance and comedy, and the purposes of imaginative literature. Introductions to each essay, presented in full or excerpted for the most relevant commentary, situate the reader in the history of fantasy literature and the criticism it has inspired. New and important here are the claims for the early development of fantasy literature from the 18th century sublime. Previous histories of the genre regard Romanticism as a limit, but this reader draws from 18th, 19th, 20th, and even 21st century texts, revealing the unimagined scope of the field and developing a "map" of its early history for the first time. This important new volume presents, ultimately, the development of critical debates about the fantastic and its relationship to literature generally.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Phaedrus (388-366 B.C.E.), Plato
The Poetics (33-323 B.C.E.), Aristotle
An Apology for Poetry (1595), Philip Sidney
"The Fairy Way of Writing" (1712), Joseph Addison
Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), Richard Hurd
On The Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (1773), Anna Laetitia Aikin (Barbauld)
Letter (1797), and Biographia Literaria (1817), Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On the Supernatural in Poetry (1826), Ann Radcliffe
On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition (1827), Walter Scott
Frauds on the Fairies (1853), Charles Dickens
Fairy Stories (1868), John Ruskin
The Fantastic Imagination (1890), George MacDonald
Fairy Tales (1908), G. K. Chesterson
The Uncanny (1919), Sigmund Freud
Introduction to Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927), H. P. Lovecraft
Critics (1956), Damon Knight
Mythos of Summer: Romance (1957), Northrop Frye
Characteristics of Genre and Plot Composition in Dostoevsky's Works (1963) Mikhail Bakhtin
Definitions of Territory: Fantasy (1970), Italo Calvino
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1970), Tzvetan Todorov
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973), Ursula Le Guin
Introduction to Modern Fantasy (1975), Colin Manlove
The Fantastic and Fantasy (1976), Eric Rabkin
On the Evolution of a Word (1979), Stephen Prickett
Magical Narratives: The Dialectical Use of Genre Criticism (1981), Fredric Jameson
The Encounter with Fantasy (1982), Harold Bloom
Literary Fantasy and Ecological Comedy (1985), Don D. Elgin
"Fantasy" from Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy (1986), Gary Wolfe
Nameless Things and Thingless Names (1987), Lance Olsen
Fantasy as Mode, Genre, Formula (1992), Brian Attebery
Phantasmagoria and the Metaphysics of Modern Reverie (1995), Terry Castle
"Fantasy" from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), John Clute
Joseph Addison: First Critic of the Fantastic (2000), David Sander
Fabling to the Near Night (2000), Jane Yolen
Introduction to Fantasy and Marxism (2002), China Mieville

LC Card Number: 2003068733

LCC Class: PN56

Dewey Class: 809


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