David S. Hogsette

The Transcendent Vision of Mythopoeic Fantasy

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Produktbeschreibung

An ever-expanding critical library on fantasy fiction requires an analysis of why the genre is so ubiquitous, enduring and beloved. This work analyses the mythic elements in foundational fantasy texts, arguing that mythopoeic fantasy reveals timeless truths that link human cultures past and present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781476682921
• ISBN-10: 1476682925
• Artikelnr.: 65016161

Autorenporträt

David S. Hogsette is a professor of English and the executive director of the School of English Studies at Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, China, where he teaches a variety of courses on literature and literary research. He has published articles in Studies in Romanticism, Critique and Christianity and Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. George MacDonald's Phantastes: The Redemptive Imagination and
the Quest for Sacrificial Love
Chapter 2. Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter: Clashing
Worldviews and Recovering Communion through Sacrificial Love
Chapter 3. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring: Understanding
Good, Evil, Friendship, and Free Will
Chapter 4. C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Fantasy as
Evangelium and Apologia
Chapter 5. Michael Ende's The Neverending Story: Quenching Nihilistic
Despair and Filling Postmodern Spiritual Voids with the Water of Life
Chapter 6. Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea: Ethical Complexities in
Dualistic Mythopoeic Fantasy
Chapter 7. Fantasy SF: Galactic Quests and the Mythopoeic Struggle for
Intergalactic Good in A Wrinkle in Time and Out of the Silent Planet
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index