Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth [Paperback]

Description: Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an argument about its nature and importance. Specific chapters cover the origins of fantasy in the Romantic search for localized myths, fantasy versions of the Modernist turn toward the primitive, the post-Tolkienian exploration of world mythologies, post-colonial reactions to the exploitation of indigenous sacred narratives by Western writers, fantasies based in Christian belief alongside fundamentalist attempts to stamp out the form, and the emergence of ever-more sophisticated structures such as metafiction through which to explore mythic constructions of reality.

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EAN: 9780199316076

UPC: 9780199316076

ISBN: 9780199316076

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Item Length: 23.1 cm

Book Title: Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth

Item Height: 234mm

Item Width: 160mm

Author: Brian Attebery

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Literature, Mythology, Books

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Publication Year: 2014

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 338g

Number of Pages: 256 Pages