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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... death by snake bite or freezing , of trips on clipper ships and lake schooners , of death in dozens of different forms . ( Laws , p . 13 ) The interests of the American ballad composer are not like those of the fantasist but those of ...
... death by snake bite or freezing , of trips on clipper ships and lake schooners , of death in dozens of different forms . ( Laws , p . 13 ) The interests of the American ballad composer are not like those of the fantasist but those of ...
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... death and accepts light and a new birth . The fundamental symbol of The Farthest Shore is the dead land . It is dry and dark and fearsome , but , unlike the tombs and tunnels of Atuan , it does not represent evil . The evil , says Le ...
... death and accepts light and a new birth . The fundamental symbol of The Farthest Shore is the dead land . It is dry and dark and fearsome , but , unlike the tombs and tunnels of Atuan , it does not represent evil . The evil , says Le ...
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... death , he opens a gap between life and death . This gap is visible in the twilit world as a black hole in a rock wall at the head of a dry riverbed . Even in the dry land , we are told , one can feel a greater dryness flowing out of ...
... death , he opens a gap between life and death . This gap is visible in the twilit world as a black hole in a rock wall at the head of a dry riverbed . Even in the dry land , we are told , one can feel a greater dryness flowing out of ...
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Fantasy and the Folk Tradition | 16 |
Belief Legend and Romance | 33 |
Fantasy for American Children | 59 |
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