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634569
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Brawley, Chris.
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Nature and the numinous in mythopoeic fantasy literature /\ Chris Brawley.
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| Series Statement
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Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ;; 46
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ix, 199 pages ;; 23 cm.
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9780786494651 (softcover : acid free paper)
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: 0786494654 (softcover : acid free paper)
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9781476615820 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.
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| Contents
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"Quieting the eye" : the perception of the eternal through the temporal in Coleridge's The rime of the ancient mariner -- The ideal and the shadow : George MacDonald's Phantastes -- "Further up and further in" : apocalypse and the new Narnia in C.S. Lewis's The last battle -- The fading of the world : Tolkien's ecology and loss in The lord of the rings -- Affirming the world that swerves : the alter-tales in Algernon Blackwood's The centaur and Ursula Le Guin's Buffalo gals and other animal presences -- "A daisy is nearer heaven than an airship" : the utopian vision in Algernon Blackwood's The centaur -- "Yes. You can keep your eye: : Ursula Le Guin's Buffalo gals and other animal presences -- The sacramental vision : perceiving the world anew.
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"This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works which engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world"--
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834-- Criticism and interpretation.
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MacDonald, George,1824-1905-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Lewis, C. S., (Clive Staples),1898-1963-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Tolkien, J. R. R., (John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Blackwood, Algernon,1869-1951-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Le Guin, Ursula K.,1929-Criticism and interpretation.
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Fantasy literature-- History and criticism.
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Holy, The, in literature.
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Mythology in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.3/8766
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PN56.F34B56 2014
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