Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvChris Brawley,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III,Iii C. W. Sullivan

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This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world. Beginning with S.T. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the book moves on to explore standard mythopoeic fantasists such as George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Taking a step outside these men, particularly influenced by Christianity, the concluding chapters discuss Algernon Blackwood and Ursula Le Guin, whose works evoke the numinous without a specifically Christian worldview.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-07-14
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Antal sidor212
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786494651

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Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. Fantasy: Recovering What Was LostOne. “Quieting the Eye”: The Perception of the Eternal through the Temporal in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient MarinerTwo. The Ideal and the Shadow: George MacDonald’s PhantastesThree. “Further Up and Further In”: Apocalypse and the New Narnia in C.S. Lewis’s The Last BattleFour. The Fading of the World: Tolkien’s Ecology and Loss in The Lord of the RingsFive. Affirming the World that Swerves: The Alter-Tales in Algernon Blackwood’s The Centaur and Ursula Le Guin’s Buffalo Gals and Other Animal PresencesSix. “A daisy is nearer heaven than an airship”: The Utopian Vision in Algernon Blackwood’s The CentaurSeven. “Yes. You can keep your eye”: Ursula Le Guin’s Buffalo Gals and Other Animal PresencesEight. The Sacramental Vision: Perceiving the World AnewBibliographyIndex