|
" Fantastic worlds : "
edited and with commentaries by Eric S. Rabkin.
| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
972096
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b726466
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Fantastic worlds : : myths, tales, and stories /\ edited and with commentaries by Eric S. Rabkin.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1979.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (xvii, 478 pages) :: illustrations
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0198020244
|
|
|
:
|
: 1280522844
|
|
|
:
|
: 6610522847
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780198020240
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781280522840
|
|
|
:
|
: 9786610522842
|
|
|
:
|
0195025415
|
|
|
:
|
0195025423
|
|
|
:
|
9780195025415
|
|
|
:
|
9780195025422
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Introduction -- The sources of the fantastic -- Genesis (KJV) -- The Blackfoot Genesis / George Bird Grinnell, ed. -- The eye of the giant / Ada Cardinall, ed. -- How I brought death into the world / Amos Tutuola -- The myth of Actaeon ; The myth of Narcissus ; The myth of Philomela / Ovid -- The ghost wife / George Bird Grinnell, ed. -- The magic swan geese / Alexandr Afanas'ev, ed. -- Why tortoise's shell is not smooth / Chinua Achebe -- How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris -- Paul Bunyan on the Columbia / Esther Shephard -- Little Red-cap ; The sleeping beauty ; Hansel and Grethel / Jakob Grimm ; Wilhelm Grimm -- The tinderbox / Hans Christian Andersen -- The tale of Cosmo / George MacDonald -- Leaf by Niggle / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The diversity of fantastic literature --Our ideas of time / Joseph Addison -- Ritter Gluck / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe -- The garden of live flowers / Lewis Carroll -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The royal banquet / Norton Juster -- The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- The picture in the house / H.P. Lovecraft -- The hand / Joseph Sheridan LeFanu -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- Lost hearts / M.R. James -- Golden wings / William Morris -- The sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany -- The five black swans / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe -- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The star / H.G. Wells -- EPICAC / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The third level / Jack Finney -- The star / Arthur C. Clarke -- The judgment ; A common confusion / Franz Kafka -- Cockroaches / Bruno Schulz -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- Axolotl / Julio Cortázar -- Pastoral / Tommaso Landolfi -- All at one point / Italo Calvino -- There is no such place as America / Peter Bichsel -- The piano player / Donald Barthelme -- Homage to the San Francisco YMCA / Richard Brautigan -- The marker / Robert Coover -- The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
Covers fantastic narrative from ancient myths to modern science fiction in more than fifty tales which represent man's imagination in etiology, entertainment, and wonder.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Fantasy literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Littérature fantastique-- Anthologies.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Fantastic fiction.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Fantasy literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
FICTION-- Anthologies (multiple authors)
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Short stories.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
808.83/876
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
PN6071.F25F34 1979eb
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
cci1icclacc
|
|
|
:
|
coll1lacc
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Rabkin, Eric S.
|
| |