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Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature
Contributor(s): Brawley, Chris (Author), Palumbo, Donald E. (Editor), Sullivan III, C. W. (Editor)
ISBN: 0786494654     ISBN-13: 9780786494651
Publisher: McFarland & Company
OUR PRICE:   $29.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy
Dewey: 809.387
LCCN: 2014018797
Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.66 lbs) 212 pages
 
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This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world. Beginning with S.T. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the book moves on to explore standard mythopoeic fantasists such as George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Taking a step outside these men, particularly influenced by Christianity, the concluding chapters discuss Algernon Blackwood and Ursula Le Guin, whose works evoke the numinous without a specifically Christian worldview.