Rhetorics of Fantasy

Name: Rhetorics of Fantasy
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ISBN: 9780819568687

ISBN-10: 0819568686

ISBN-13: 9780819568687

Edition: 2008

Authors: Farah Mendlesohn

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Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four categories of fantasy--portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal--that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Portal-Quest Fantasy



The Immersive Fantasy



The Intrusion Fantasy



The Liminal Fantasy



"The Irregulars": Subverting the Taxonomy


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index