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Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth
Contributor(s): Attebery, Brian (Author)
ISBN: 0199316074     ISBN-13: 9780199316076
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $47.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy
Dewey: 809.387
LCCN: 2013023205
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages
 
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Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships
with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an argument about its nature and importance. Specific chapters cover the origins of fantasy in the Romantic search for localized myths, fantasy versions of the Modernist turn toward the primitive,
the post-Tolkienian exploration of world mythologies, post-colonial reactions to the exploitation of indigenous sacred narratives by Western writers, fantasies based in Christian belief alongside fundamentalist attempts to stamp out the form, and the emergence of ever-more sophisticated structures
such as metafiction through which to explore mythic constructions of reality.