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Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

By Donald E. Palumbo , C.W. Sullivan III , Chris Brawley

Book information

Publisher
McFarland
Year
2014
ISBN
0786494654, 9780786494651
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1415833 bytes)
Series
Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Pages
212\211
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2015-05-16 10:42:40
Литературоведение;Теория литературы;Теория литерат

Description

This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that 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. Beginning with S.T. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the book moves on to explore standard mythopoeic fantasists such as George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Taking a step outside these men, particularly influenced by Christianity, the concluding chapters discuss Algernon Blackwood and Ursula Le Guin, whose works evoke the numinous without a specifically Christian worldview.

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