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Record Nr.

UNINA9910425154803321

Autore

Rickels Laurence A.

Titolo

Critique of fantasy . Vol. 2 : the contest between B-genres / / Laurence A. Rickels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, California : , : Brainstorm Books, , 2020

©2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages) : digital file

Disciplina

809.38766

Soggetti

Fantasy literature - History and criticism

Fiction genres

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In the “Introduction; or, How Star Wars Became Our Oldest Cultural Memory” of the first volume of Critique of Fantasy, the gambit of a contest between science fiction and fantasy was already sketched out. J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis aimed to separate the fantasy from the techno-science foregrounded in works by H.G. Wells, for example, and raise the fantasy or fairy-story to the power of an alternate adult literary genre. My study of the contest between the B-genres for ownership of the evolution of the social relation of art out of the condemned site of day dreaming required in the first place a reading apparatus, which the first volume derived from psychoanalytic theories of daydreaming’s relationship to conscious thought, the unconscious, and artistic production as well as from their prehistory, the philosophies of dreams, ghosts, willing and wishing.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780492703321

Titolo

Civic engagement in American democracy [[electronic resource] /] / Theda Skocpol, Morris P. Fiorina, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press

New York, : Russell Sage Foundation, c1999

ISBN

0-8157-9893-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (539 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SkocpolTheda

FiorinaMorris P

Disciplina

323/.042/0973

Soggetti

Political participation - United States

Civil society - United States

Democracy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; PART ONE Between State and Society: Roots of American Civic Engagement; PART TWO Civic Life in a Changing Society; PART THREE The Ironies of Contemporary Activism; About the Contributors; Index