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Author Attebery, Brian, 1951-

Title Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth / Brian Attebery.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  809.38766 At81s 2014    ---  Available
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Description 240 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Fantasy as a route to myth -- Taxonomic Interlude: a note on genres -- Make it old: the other mythic method -- Silver lies and spinning wheels: Christian myth in MacDonald and Lewis -- Romance and formula, myth and memorate -- Expanding the territory: colonial fantasy -- Angels, fantasy, and belief -- Literalist Interlude: burning Harry Potter -- The postcolonial fantastic -- Coyote's eyes: situated fantasy.
Subject Fantasy literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Literature and myth.
Myth in literature.
ISBN 9780199316076 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0199316074 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780199316069 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0199316066 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

 
    
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