Strategies of Fantasy

Name: Strategies of Fantasy
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ISBN: 9780253310705

ISBN-10: 0253310709

ISBN-13: 9780253310705

Edition: 1992

Authors: Brian Attebery

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Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader's strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), Attebery makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within postmodern literature rather than as a simple exercise of nostalgia. Attebury examines recent and classic fantasies by Ursula K. Le Guin, John Crowley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, and Gene Wolfe, among others. In both its popular and postmodern incarnations, fantasic fiction exhibits a remarkable capacity for reinventing…

Book details

Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 180
Size: 6.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 1.100



Introduction



Fantasy as Mode, Genre, Formula



Is Fantasy Literature? Tolkien and the Theorists



Fantasy and Postmodernism



Fantasy and Narrative Conventions: Story



Fantasy and Narrative Conventions: Character



Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy



Science Fantasy



Recapturing the Modern World for the Imagination


Works Cited


Index