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".

This study examines how the fictional writings of C.S. Lewis reveal much about the man himself and his quest for psychological and spiritual wholeness. There is new material dealing with C.S. Lewis' political writings, especially the correspondence between his thriller, "That Hideous Strength" and George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", and some new insights into Lewis' misogynistic attitudes to women. This book examines all of Lewis' major works, including "The Narnian Chronicles", from a polemical and personal viewpoint. Kath Filmer is the editor of "The Victorian Fantasists" and "Twentieth-Century Fantasists", and also the author of "Scepticism and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fantasy".

This book examines the way in which the fictional writings of C.S. Lewis reveal much about the man himself and his quest for psychological and spiritual wholeness. There is new material dealing with C.S. Lewis's political writings, especially the correspondences between his thriller, That Hideous Strength and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and some new insights into Lewis's attitudes to women.

Twentieth-Century Fantasists is a collection of essays which examine the way in which fantasy literature functions as cultural and social criticism. Essays on Tolkien, Le Guin, Angela Carter, H.G. Wells and C.S. Lewis are included: and also works by William Burroughs, Ford Madox Ford, and Salman Rushdie are discussed. The book surveys the social and cultural changes of the twentieth century as reflected in the works of fantasy writers.

This book examines how contemporary fantasy literature offers critical insights into western society and culture by drawing on the ancient myths of Wales. These books emphasise the need to have a set of social and personal values in order to be free from a sense of dislocation and alienation in a highly technologised society and in order to satisfy the sense of 'hiraeth' or longing for a place where one truly belongs.