Lance Olsen

Ellipse of Uncertainty

An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers. Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise. Finally he argues that postmodern fantasy is the literary equivalent of deconstructionism, for it interrogates all we take for granted about language and experience, giving these no more than shifting and provisional status. It may be seen as a mode of radical skepticism that believes only in the possiblilty of total intelligibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780313255113
• ISBN-10: 0313255113
• Artikelnr.: 25569078

Autorenporträt

LANCE OLSEN is author of more than twenty books. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah and serves as chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two.