Fantastic literature : a critical reader / David Sandner.

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Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Other Authors:
Sandner, David
Subjects:
Fantasy literature > History and criticism.
Format: Book
Fantastic literature : a critical reader /
Table of Contents:
  • Phaedrus (388-366 B.C.), Plato
  • The poetics (c. 334-323 B.C.), Aristotle
  • An apology for poetry (1595), Philip Sidney
  • "The fairy way of writing" (1712), Joseph Addison
  • Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762), Richard Hurd
  • On the pleasure derived from objects of terror (1773), Anna Laetitia Aikin (later Barbauld)
  • Letter (1797) and Biographia literaria (1817), Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • On the supernatural in poetry (1826), Ann Radcliffe
  • On the supernatural in fictitious composition (1827), Walter Scott
  • Frauds on the fairies (1853), Charles Dickens
  • Fairy Stories (1868), John Ruskin
  • The fantastic imagination (1890), George MacDonald
  • Fairy tales (1908), G. K. Chesterton
  • The uncanny (1919), Sigmund Freud
  • Introduction to Supernatural horror in literature (1927), H. P. Lovecraft
  • Critics (1956), Damon Knight
  • The mythos of summer : Romance (1957), Northrop Frye
  • Characteristics of genre and plot composition in Dostoevsky's works (1963), Mikhail Bakhtin
  • Definitions of territory : fantasy (1970), Italo Calvino
  • The fantastic : a structural approach to a literary genre (1970), Tzvetan Todorov
  • From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973), Ursula Le Guin
  • Introduction to Modern fantasy (1975), Colin Manlove
  • The fantastic and fantasy (1976), Eric Rabkin
  • The evolution of a word (1979), Stephen Prickett
  • Magical narratives : on the dialectical use of genre criticism (1981), Fredric Jameson
  • The encounter with fantasy (1982), Gary Wolfe
  • Clinamen : towards a theory of fantasy (1982), Harold Bloom
  • Literary fantasy and ecological comedy (1985), Don D. Elgin
  • "Fantasy" from Critical terms for science fiction and fantasy (1986), Gary Wolfe
  • Prelude : nameless things and thingless names (1987), Lance Olsen
  • Fantasy as mode, genre, formula (1992), Brian Attebery
  • "Fantasy" from The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), John Clute
  • Joseph Addison : the first critic of the fantastic (2000), David Sandner
  • Fabling to the near night (2000), Jane Yolen
  • Marxism and fantasy : an introduction (2002), China Mieville.

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