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  • Here Be Dragons

    Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings

    First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literatureWinner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016)Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical ... Leer más

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  • Here Be Dragons

    Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings

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    Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2016)Fantasy worlds are never mere backdrops. They are an integral part of the work, and refuse to remain separate from other elements. These worlds combine landscape with narrative logic by incorporating alternative rules about cause and effect or physical transformation. They become actors in the drama—interacting with the ... Leer más

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    Martin Bircks ungdom

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    "Här stod tiden stilla. Det är med förändringarna man mäter tidens gång, jag har ingenting att mäta den med."Hjalmar Söderbergs genombrottsroman "Martin Bircks ungdom" har blivit till en representant för den melankoliska sekelskifteslitteraturen. I denna klassika utvecklingsroman kretsar allt kring huvudpersonen Martin Bircks uppväxt och liv, kärlek och tid i Stockholm. Det är en delvis ... Leer más

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  • Meditations on Middle-Earth

    New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien

    Hugo Award Nominee: George R. R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Harry Turtledove, and others reveal how Tolkien inspired and influenced them.When J. R. R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the heroic quest, the world hardly noticed. Sales of The Lord of the Rings languished for the better part of ... Leer más

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  • Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy

    Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy

    This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson's spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection, "Techniques of Structure and Story," compares and contrasts the organizational principles of the ... Leer más

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  • In Other Worlds

    SF and the Human Imagination

    **A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction—as a reader and as a writerThe ebook edition of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating ebook-exclusive illustrations by the author**At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps ... Leer más

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  • On Monsters

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

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    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Leer más

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  • A Secret Vice

    Tolkien on Invented Languages

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  • Rhetorics of Fantasy

    This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers "new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work" ( Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts).Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, ... Leer más

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