Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago Wood sequence are explored, as is Holdstock's early science fiction and the Merlin Codex series.
Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago Wood sequence are explored, as is Holdstock's early science fiction and the Merlin Codex series.
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Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Nr.26
Donald E. Morse is a professor at the University of Debrecen, in Hungary, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Oakland in Michigan. He is the author of a dozen books and over 100 scholarly articles. Kálmán Matolcsy is a translator, poet, composer, and a professor at the University of Debrecen. He has written numerous scholarly articles on the literature of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword: Under the Spell of a Magician BRIAN W. ALDISS Introduction: Mythago Wood-"A Source of Visions and Adventure" DONALD E. MORSE Part One: Approaches 1. The Embodiment of Abstraction in the Mythago Novels W. A. SENIOR 2. Masks in the Forest: The Dynamics of Surface and Depth in the Mythago Cycle KÁLMÁN MATOLCSY 3. Exploring the Habitats of Myths: The Spatiotemporal Structure of Ryhope Wood STEFAN EKMAN Part Two: The Novels 4. Time Winds: Early Science Fiction ANDY SAWYER 5. Profusion Sublime and the Fantastic: Mythago Wood MAREK OZIEWICZ 6. Tallis, the Feminine Presence in Mythago Wood: Lavondyss: Journey to an Unknown Region ELIZABETH A. WHITTINGHAM 7. Embedded Narratives in Lavondyss and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness VERA BENCZIK 8. Stories to Illuminate Truth and Lies to Hide Pain: Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn DONALD E. MORSE 9. "A Heap of Broken Images"-The Mythological Wasteland of the Mind: The Hollowing and Ancient Echoes ILDIKÓ LIMPÁR 10. "So many names in so many tongues...": Allusive Mythology in Celtika C. W. SULLIVAN III 11. Thresholds, Polders, and Crosshatches in the Merlin Codex TOM SHIPPEY Robert Holdstock Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword: Under the Spell of a Magician BRIAN W. ALDISS Introduction: Mythago Wood-"A Source of Visions and Adventure" DONALD E. MORSE Part One: Approaches 1. The Embodiment of Abstraction in the Mythago Novels W. A. SENIOR 2. Masks in the Forest: The Dynamics of Surface and Depth in the Mythago Cycle KÁLMÁN MATOLCSY 3. Exploring the Habitats of Myths: The Spatiotemporal Structure of Ryhope Wood STEFAN EKMAN Part Two: The Novels 4. Time Winds: Early Science Fiction ANDY SAWYER 5. Profusion Sublime and the Fantastic: Mythago Wood MAREK OZIEWICZ 6. Tallis, the Feminine Presence in Mythago Wood: Lavondyss: Journey to an Unknown Region ELIZABETH A. WHITTINGHAM 7. Embedded Narratives in Lavondyss and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness VERA BENCZIK 8. Stories to Illuminate Truth and Lies to Hide Pain: Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn DONALD E. MORSE 9. "A Heap of Broken Images"-The Mythological Wasteland of the Mind: The Hollowing and Ancient Echoes ILDIKÓ LIMPÁR 10. "So many names in so many tongues...": Allusive Mythology in Celtika C. W. SULLIVAN III 11. Thresholds, Polders, and Crosshatches in the Merlin Codex TOM SHIPPEY Robert Holdstock Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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