Strategies of Fantasy - Brian Attebery

Strategies of Fantasy - Brian Attebery

Brian Attebery's 'strategy of fantasy' include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibilities, but also the reader's 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, fantastic fiction exhibits a remarkable capacity for reinventing narrative conventions. 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 marvellous is admitted into a story. źródło opisu: Indiana University Press, 1992 źródło okładki: zdjęcie autorskie

ISBN 0253310709
liczba stron 180
kategoria językoznawstwo, nauka o literaturze
data wydania 1992 (data przybliżona)
słowa kluczowe tolkienistyka, tolkien
język angielski
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