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Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature

Kath Filmer

First published 1992
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Pages xvi+212
ISBN 1349221287

First edition. Data from Barnes & Noble.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature) Kath Filmer Essay
8 Science, Myth and Utopia Roslynn Haynes Essay
23 Wells, The First Men in the Moon, and Lewis's Ransom Trilogy David Lake Essay
34 Visions from the Verge: Terror and Play in G. K. Chesterton's Imagination Elmar Schenkel Essay
47 Meaning Everything: The Image of Pan at the Turn of the Century Robert Dingley Essay
60 The Eternal Feminine: Ford Madox Ford's Medieval Fantasies Virginia C. Kenny Essay
71 Viewing 'the Immense Panorama or Futility and Anarchy that is Contemporary History' in the First Six Novels of Charles Williams Marlene McKinley Essay
92 Tolkien, Epic Traditions, and Golden Age Myths Charles A. Huttar Essay
108 Atseiniau O Ddyddiau Gynt: Welsh Myth and Culture in Contemporary Fantasy Kath Filmer Essay
121 Wordsworth in Space: The Fantasies of William S. Burroughs Duncan Wu Essay
135 'Escape!': That Dirty Word in Modern Fantasy: Le Guin's Earthsea Norman Talbot Essay
148 'In the Demythologizing Business': Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffmann (1972) Colin Manlove Essay
161 The Handmaid's Tale: Narrative Voice and the Primacy of the Tale Barbara Garlick Essay
172 Hammering the Demons: Sword, Sorcery and Contemporary Society John Strugnell Essay
183 Centring the Margins: Postmodernism and Fantasy Stephen Prickett Essay
193 Dreaming Each Other: The Discourse of Fantasy in Contemporary News Media Kath Filmer Essay
ix Foreword: The Stream of Time Continuous as Life David Jasper Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature Cover 1992 Palgrave Macmillan Hardcover Nonfiction xvi+212