Janet Brennan Croft

Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

World War I has been called "the poets' war," as it was characterized by a massive outpouring of works of literature during and after the war. Much of this literary harvest, as Paul Fussell brilliantly demonstrated in The Great War and Modern Memory, hinged on an ironic response to the deadly absurdities of World War I. Yet, Fussell also acknowledges that fantasy could be a legitimate literary response to the war, a way of transforming the horrible experiences of the war into something more bearable, applicable, and relevant; into myth and "Escape" in the sense that Tolkien used the term in "On Fairy-stories." This present volume sprang from a desire to examine selected examples of the fantastic response to World War I among British authors. The contents comprise a mix of five classic articles from the pages of Mythlore and twelve new essays. The first half of the book considers the Inklings, the Oxford literary group centered on J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, while the second half deals with other authors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MythPress
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781887726139
• Artikelnr.: 70915797

Autorenporträt

Janet Brennan Croft is an Associate University Librarian at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of War in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien (Praeger, 2004; winner, Mythopoeic Society Award for Inklings Studies). She has also written on the Peter Jackson Middle-earth films, the Whedonverse, Orphan Black, J. K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Devil Wears Prada, and other authors, TV shows, and movies. She is also editor or co-editor of many collections of literary essays, the most recent (before this one) being 'Something Has Gone Crack': New Perspectives on Tolkien in the Great War (Walking Tree, 2019) with Anna Röttinger. She edits the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore and is archivist and assistant editor of Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+. You can follow her work on Academia.edu.