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Twentieth-Century Fantasists - Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature (Hardcover)
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Twentieth-Century Fantasists - Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature (Hardcover)
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This collection of essays examines the way in which fantasy
literature functions as cultural and social criticism. Essays on
Tolkein, Le Guin, Angela Carter, H.G. Wells and C.S. Lewis are
included, as well as works by William Burroughs, Ford Madox Ford
and Salman Rushdie are discussed. There is an essay on sword and
sorcery novels, on the use of Welsh myth in children's fantasy and
on the fantastical elements in television news broadcasts.;This
book surveys the social and cultural changes of the 20th century as
reflected in the works of fantasy writers. "Twentieth-Century
Fantasists" is the companion volume to "The Victorian Fantasists",
also edited by Kath Filmer as well as "The Fiction of C.S. Lewis:
Mask and Mirror" and she publishes regularly in "Poetry Monash".
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