Fantasy

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"The books are true while reality is lying ..." Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and…

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Full title :Fantasy / Andrew Rayment.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Editions Rodopi B.V
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (276 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789401211000, 9401211000
oclc:ocn973051537
LC Classification:PR890.F3
Dewey Decimal:823/.0876609

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part 1 The Politics of (In)Sight; Introduction; Fantasy Sight: ''Real Being''; One Metaphor and Domain Maps: Parallax Sight; Two From Mind to Real: Ontological Sight; Three Theory, Fantastic Beings, Space: ''Purificational'' Sight; Four Seeing Visions: Experimental Sight; Five Dwarfs, Hermaphrodites, Lovers: Fantastic Sex; Part II -- the Politics of Blindness; Six A Plague of Punctum: Postmodern Excess; Punctum 1: Words; Punctum 2: Narratives; Punctum 3: Images; Punctum 4: Theory; CONCLUSION.

""What It Seems It Is ... "" (Is a World of Seeming)Bibliography; Index.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Fantasy fiction, English Fantasy fiction, English -- History and… Fantasy fiction, English -- Political a… Miéville, China Politics and literature Politique et littérature Pratchett, Terry Pullman, Philip Ressources Internet