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Author : David Pringle
Publisher :
Release Date : 1988
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 296 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
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Author : David Pringle
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-09-30
ISBN 13 : 1473208068
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (28 downloads)
Download Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels PDF Format Full Free by David Pringle and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pringle presents his selections in chronological order and includes a synopsis of the story, a discussion of the author's overall contribution to fantasy literature, critical commentary on the title's significance, and a brief publishing history. An introductory essay tackles the difficulty of defining fantasy, while a "Brief Bibliography" directs readers to other discussions of the genre. By no means a definitive subject guide, this entertaining volume should serve as a solid introduction to the elusive field of imaginative literature.
Author : David Pringle
Publisher : New York : Bedrick Books
Release Date : 1988
ISBN 13 : 9780872263284
Pages : 278 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (872 downloads)
Download Modern Fantasy PDF Format Full Free by David Pringle and published by New York : Bedrick Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommends the hundred best modern fantasy novels and offers brief summaries of each work
Author : David Pringle
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-06-30
ISBN 13 : 1473208076
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (28 downloads)
Download Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels PDF Format Full Free by David Pringle and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the best-known editors in modern science fiction, this lively and authoritative guide will appeal to both newcomers and connoisseurs of the genre alike. Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark works by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Alfred Bester and J.G. Ballard, unearth less prominent talents such as Ian Watson, Octavia Butler and Joanna Russ, and highlight breakthrough novels by William Gibson and Philip K. Dick. An essential guide to science fiction literature.
Author : Richard Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-29
ISBN 13 : 113678554X
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (785 downloads)
Download Fantasy PDF Format Full Free by Richard Mathews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-08-13
ISBN 13 : 9780810863453
Pages : 568 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (81 downloads)
Download The A to Z of Fantasy Literature PDF Format Full Free by Brian Stableford and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 13 : 9780313329531
Pages : 520 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (313 downloads)
Download The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy PDF Format Full Free by Gary Westfahl and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-26
ISBN 13 : 0521429595
Pages : 297 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (429 downloads)
Download The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature PDF Format Full Free by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first introduction to the whole field of modern fantasy literature in the English-speaking world.
Author : Algis Budrys
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-06-14
ISBN 13 : 1291455272
Pages : 273 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (455 downloads)
Download Benchmarks Concluded 1987-1993 PDF Format Full Free by Algis Budrys and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of book reviews and essays written for The magazine of fantasy and science fiction.
Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2002-01-30
ISBN 13 : 0313077401
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (77 downloads)
Download Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy PDF Format Full Free by Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with disdain and have criticized it for being inferior to other types of literature. But despite the sentiments of these traditionalists, many works of science fiction engage recognized canonical texts, such as the Odyssey, and many traditionally canonical works contain elements of science fiction. More recently, the canon has been subject to revision, as scholars have deliberately sought to include works that reflect diversity and have participated in the serious study of popular culture. But these attempts to create a more inclusive canon have nonetheless continued to marginalize science fiction. This book examines the treatment of science fiction within the academy. The expert contributors to this volume explore a wide range of topics related to the place of science fiction in literary studies. These include academic attitudes toward science fiction, the role of journals and cultural gatekeepers in canon formation, and the marginalization of specific works and authors by literary critics. In addition, the volume gives special attention to multicultural and feminist concerns. In discussing these topics, the book sheds considerable light on much broader issues related to the politics of literary studies and academic inquiry.
Author : Joe Sanders
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2022-02-23
ISBN 13 : 1476640572
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (64 downloads)
Download Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder PDF Format Full Free by Joe Sanders and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since they began appearing in the 1970s, Michael Bishop's science fiction and fantasy stories have been recognized for their polished prose and their depth of thought and feeling. His award-winning fiction includes No Enemy but Time (1982), Unicorn Mountain (1988), Brittle Innings (1994) and the outstanding short story "The Pile" (2008). After the 2017 publication of his collection Other Arms Reach Out to Me, Bishop was inducted into the Georgia Writers' Hall of Fame. Revision and republication of much of Bishop's fiction in recent years have renewed interest in Bishop's explorations of religion, belief and the pursuit of human truth. This book is the first comprehensive study of Michael Bishop's literary body, examining his work in full. Featured are close readings of all his novels and studies of short stories, poetry and essays that Bishop himself identified for special attention.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2002-10-01
ISBN 13 : 1587153300
Pages : 342 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (153 downloads)
Download Complete Critical Assembly PDF Format Full Free by David Langford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.
Author : Halbert W. Hall
Publisher : Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 712 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index, 1985-1991 PDF Format Full Free by Halbert W. Hall and published by Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonio Ballesteros González
Publisher : Univ de Castilla La Mancha
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 13 : 9788484271260
Pages : 414 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (484 downloads)
Download Popular Texts in English PDF Format Full Free by Antonio Ballesteros González and published by Univ de Castilla La Mancha. This book was released on 2001 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises a collection of articles devoted to the academic study of popular texts in English. Authors analyse genres which had been habitually looked down on by canonical approaches to literature and art. They take into serious consideration forms like horror literature, the gothic, fantasy, de-tective fiction, science fiction, best-sellers, films and television series of different kinds... among some other representations of what conservative scholars had been considering as marginal. The referential richness of the perspectives reflected here demonstrates that popular texts can be enjoyable for readers and audiences, at the same time that they can be significant in order to reach a better understanding of our culture and ourselves at the beginning of a new millennium.
Author : Jess Nevins
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2020-01-31
ISBN 13 : 1440862060
Pages : 277 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (862 downloads)
Download Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre PDF Format Full Free by Jess Nevins and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the world of horror literature, a truly global phenomenon during the 20th century. Beginning with the modern genre's roots in the 19th century, the book proceeds to cover 20th-century horror literature in all of its manifestations, whether in comics, pulps, paperbacks, hardcover novels, or mainstream magazines, and from every country that produced it. The major horror authors of the century receive their due, but the works of many authors who are less well-known or who have been forgotten are also described and analyzed. In addition to providing critical assessments and judgments of individual authors and works, the book describes the evolution of the genre and the major movements within it. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century stands out from its competitors and will be of interest to its readers because of its informed critical analysis, its unprecedented coverage of female authors and writers of color, and its concise historical overview. Covers both the best-known authors of horror literature and a large number of lesser-known or forgotten authors whose work would reward searching out by modern readers Is unprecedented in its coverage of international horror literature and includes dozens of authors whose horror fiction has never before been translated into English Covers the major 20th century developments and movements within horror literature in one volume, in a linear and chronological manner Is a corrective to decades of sexist, racist, colonialist, and provincial horror criticism
Author : Jack Seabrook
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2006-03-30
ISBN 13 : 0786424370
Pages : 233 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (424 downloads)
Download Stealing Through Time PDF Format Full Free by Jack Seabrook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of twentieth-century author Jack Finney are classic contributions to the genres of science fiction and suspense thrillers in American literature. Two of Finney's novels, The Body Snatchers and Good Neighbor Sam, became the basis of popular films, but it was his time-travel story Time and Again (1970) that won him a devoted following. The novel about an advertising artist who travels back to the New York of the 1880s quickly became a cult favorite, celebrated especially by New Yorkers for its rich descriptions of life in the city at that time. The year of his death, Finney finished the sequel, From Time to Time (1995). In 1955 he published The Body Snatchers, a chilling tale of aliens who emerge from pods in the guise of humans. Many critics interpreted the insidious infiltration by aliens as a cold war allegory that dramatized America's looming fear of a communist invasion, and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers was remade twice. Over the course of his career, Finney wrote ten novels, more than 50 short stories, two plays, and a work of nonfiction, all of which are presented and discussed in this book. Also, reproduced in full and analyzed is a series of letters exchanged between Finney and various persons associated with his alma mater, Knox College. These letters give rare insight into Finney's character and demonstrate his personal interest in some of the themes that recur in his fiction. This work begins with an overview of Finney's life and career, presents a complete assessment of the author's works, and concludes with a look at the various ways that Finney's works have been adapted for the stage, television, and film. Also included is the first comprehensive list of Jack Finney's writings ever published.
Author : Matthew Oliver
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2022-06-07
ISBN 13 : 1476645884
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (645 downloads)
Download Magic Words, Magic Worlds PDF Format Full Free by Matthew Oliver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy novels create elaborate secondary worlds entirely out of language, yet the writing style used to construct those worlds has rarely been studied in depth. This book builds the foundations for a study of style in epic fantasy. Close readings of selected novels by such writers as Steven Erikson, Ursula Le Guin, N. K. Jemisin and Brandon Sanderson offer insights into the significant implications of fantasy's use of syntax, perspective, paratexts, frame narratives and more. Re-examining critical assumptions about the reading experience of epic fantasy, this work explores the genre's reputation for flowery, archaic language and its ability to create a sense of wonder. Ultimately, it argues that epic fantasy shapes the way people think, examining how literary representation and style influence perception.
