Fantastic literature : a critical reader / David Sandner.

Other author Sandner, David, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Descriptionxii, 357 pages cm
Subjects
Fantasy literature--History and criticism.

Contents Phaedrus (388-366 B.C.) / Plato -- The poetics (c. 334-323 B.C.) / Aristotle -- An apology for poetry (1595) / Philip Sidney -- "The fairy way of writing" (1712) / Joseph Addison -- Letters on chivalry and romance (1762) / Richard Hurd -- On the pleasure derived from objects of terror (1773) / Anna Laetitia Aikin (later Barbauld) -- Letter (1797) and Biographia literaria (1817) / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- On the supernatural in poetry (1826) / Ann Radcliffe -- On the supernatural in fictitious composition (1827) / Walter Scott -- Frauds on the fairies (1853) / Charles Dickens -- Fairy stories (1868) / John Ruskin -- The fantastic imagination (1890) / George MacDonald -- Fairy tales (1908) / G.K. Chesterton -- The uncanny (1919) / Sigmund Freud -- Introduction to Supernatural horror in literature (1927) / H.P. Lovecraft -- Critics (1956) / Damon Knight -- The mythos of summer : romance (1957) / Northrop Frye -- Characteristics of genre and plot composition in Dostoevsky's works (1963) / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Definitions of territory : fantasy (1970) / Italo Calvino -- The fantastic : a structural approach to a literary genre (1970) / Tzvetan Todorov -- From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973) / Ursula Le Guin -- Introduction to Modern fantasy (1975) / Colin Manlove -- The fantastic and fantasy (1976) / Eric Rabkin -- The evolution of a word (1979) / Stephen Prickett -- Magical narratives : on the dialectical use of genre criticism (1981) / Fredric Jameson -- The encounter with fantasy (1982) / Gary Wolfe -- Clinamen : towards a theory of fantasy (1982) / Harold Bloom -- Literary fantasy and ecological comedy (1985) / Don D. Elgin -- "Fantasy," from Critical terms for science fiction and fantasy (1986) / Gary Wolfe -- Prelude : nameless things and thingless names (1987) / Lance Olsen -- Fantasy as mode, genre, formula (1992) / Brian Attebery -- "Fantasy," from The encyclopedia of fantasy (1997) / John Clute -- Joseph Addison : the first critic of the fantastic (2000) / David Sandner -- Fabling to the near night (2000) / Jane Yolen -- Marxism and fantasy : an introduction (2002) / China Miéville.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003068733
ISBN0275980537 (alk. paper)

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