The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le GuinIndiana University Press, 22/11/1980 - 224 páginas Brian Attebery considers eccentricities and history in the writings of, Baum, Ruskin, MacDonald, Morris, Lewis and Tolkien in a concise survey of the different definitions and characteristics of the genre of fantasy, first exploring it as a whole, then defining its influence on American folklore. |
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Página 131
... come and go as one wishes , to balance the two halves of existence , that is the ideal . Neither Carter nor Lovecraft ... comes in contact , rather than as mere impediments or embellishments to the story . They are described with quiet ...
... come and go as one wishes , to balance the two halves of existence , that is the ideal . Neither Carter nor Lovecraft ... comes in contact , rather than as mere impediments or embellishments to the story . They are described with quiet ...
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... comes a little more action and still further revelations and revisions of what went before . What seemed simple comes to seem complex , mysterious , and dangerous . The series is put together like a set of transparent overlays : each ...
... comes a little more action and still further revelations and revisions of what went before . What seemed simple comes to seem complex , mysterious , and dangerous . The series is put together like a set of transparent overlays : each ...
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... comes across the summoning spell that is later to be his undoing . We can see that the " Sorcerer's Apprentice " story is more or less an expansion of this segment of the full fairy tale morphology , but with slightly different emphases ...
... comes across the summoning spell that is later to be his undoing . We can see that the " Sorcerer's Apprentice " story is more or less an expansion of this segment of the full fairy tale morphology , but with slightly different emphases ...
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Fantasy and the Folk Tradition | 16 |
Belief Legend and Romance | 33 |
Fantasy for American Children | 59 |
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