Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth / Brian Attebery.

By: Attebery, Brian, 1951-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199316083Subject(s): Fantasy literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Literature and myth | Myth in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stories about stories.DDC classification: 809.3/8766 LOC classification: PN56.F34 | A88 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Fantasy as a route to myth -- Taxonomic Interlude: a note on genres -- Make it old: the other mythic method -- Silver lies and spinning wheels: Christian myth in MacDonald and Lewis -- Romance and formula, myth and memorate -- Expanding the territory: colonial fantasy -- Angels, fantasy, and belief -- Literalist Interlude: burning Harry Potter -- The postcolonial fantastic -- Coyote's eyes: situated fantasy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fantasy as a route to myth -- Taxonomic Interlude: a note on genres -- Make it old: the other mythic method -- Silver lies and spinning wheels: Christian myth in MacDonald and Lewis -- Romance and formula, myth and memorate -- Expanding the territory: colonial fantasy -- Angels, fantasy, and belief -- Literalist Interlude: burning Harry Potter -- The postcolonial fantastic -- Coyote's eyes: situated fantasy.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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