Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey should interest and inform students interested in the mysterious or magical.
"In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, moving back and forth between a poetics of the fantastic itself and a metapoetics or theory of theorizing, even as he suggest that one must, as a critic, move back and forth between t…
"In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, moving back and forth between a poetics of the fantastic itself and a metapoetics or theory of theorizing, even as he suggest that one must, as a critic, move back and forth between t…
The man in the moon has dropped down for a visit, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to the heavens. To enter the world of children's literature is to journey to a realm where the real and the enchanted exist s…
"Baroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and…
Introduction Developing through fantasy : from stasis to transformation Fantasies of identity : the self and individualism Fantasies of empowerment and agency : gender and the burden of responsibility Writing fantastic spaces : real, virtual and textual teens Conclusion : new ev…
Farewell to shadowlands : believing, doubting, and knowing -- The Tao in Narnia : ethics -- Further up and further in : metaphysics -- The deepest magic : religion and the transcendent.