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In Defence of Fantasy - A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945 (Hardcover)
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In Defence of Fantasy - A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction
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The modern fantasy novel might hardly seem to need a defence, but
its position in contemporary literature in the 1980s was still
rather ambivalent. Many post-war writers had produced highly
successful fantasy novels, some phenomenal publishing successes had
occurred in the field, and an increasing number of universities
throughout the English-speaking world now included the literary
criticism of fantasy as part of their English Literature courses.
None the less some critics and academics condemned the whole genre
with a passion that seemed less than objectively critical. In this
book, originally published in 1984, Dr Ann Swinfen presents a
wide-ranging and comprehensive view of fantasy: what it is, what it
tries to achieve, what fundamental differences distinguish it from
mainstream realist fiction. She concentrates on the three decades
from 1945, when a new generation of writers found that Tolkein had
made fantasy 'respectable'. Her approach is thematic, rather than
by individual author, and she brings out the profound moral purpose
that underlies much modern fantasy, in a wide range of works, both
British and American, such as Russell Hoban's The Mouse and His
Child, C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Ursula Le Guin's
Earthsea Trilogy.
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