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Fairy Tales
Fantasy Genre
folklore studies
genre
Giant Perch
Golden Wings
guin
heroic
Holy Man
house
Howard's Conan
james
Key Words
King Pellinore
Le Guin's Fiction
literary subversion
Lord Dunsany
medievalism in literature
Modern Fantasy
mountains
myth criticism
myth folklore fantasy genre study
narrative theory
roots
speculative fiction analysis
Sprague De Camp
Weird Tales
Wild Man
wolfings
Wondrous Isles
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138139657
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.
Richard Mathews is a poet and professor of English at the University of Tampa. Widely published, he is the author of Aldiss Unbound, The Clockwork Universe of AnthonyBurgess, Worlds Beyond the World, Lightening from a ClearSky and Subtropical Speculations.
