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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... fairy - land " ( p . 11 ) . That is just how an author might feel , peeping into oral tradition and into the pages of books in search of a usable fairyland . What Fiamma eventually finds in a hole in the ground is a colony of those ...
... fairy - land " ( p . 11 ) . That is just how an author might feel , peeping into oral tradition and into the pages of books in search of a usable fairyland . What Fiamma eventually finds in a hole in the ground is a colony of those ...
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... fairyland , like none before it , that we recognize as our own , a fairyland so stamped with the national culture that the English , those connoisseurs of fairylands , often find it more bewildering than wonderful . But Oz struck such a ...
... fairyland , like none before it , that we recognize as our own , a fairyland so stamped with the national culture that the English , those connoisseurs of fairylands , often find it more bewildering than wonderful . But Oz struck such a ...
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... fairyland - chart the unknown regions remaining in Oz and the lands around it . All of the stories are based on movement . They whisk one away from known lands with a dizzying swoop , proceed over land , water , and air toward a brief ...
... fairyland - chart the unknown regions remaining in Oz and the lands around it . All of the stories are based on movement . They whisk one away from known lands with a dizzying swoop , proceed over land , water , and air toward a brief ...
Índice
Fantasy and the Folk Tradition | 16 |
Belief Legend and Romance | 33 |
Fantasy for American Children | 59 |
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