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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456660403321

Autore

Gray William <1952->

Titolo

Death and fantasy [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald and R.L. Stevenson / / by William Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-19258-2

9786612192586

1-4438-0897-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Fantasy fiction, English - History and criticism

Children's stories, English - History and criticism

Death in literature

Spirituality in literature

Electronic books.

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 (p. [115]-121).

Nota di contenuto

George MacDonald, Julia Kristeva and the Black sun -- The angel in the house of death : gender and subjectivity in George MacDonald's Lilith -- Strange case of Dr. MacDonald and Mr. Hyde : Robert Louis Stevenson and George MacDonald -- The incomplete fairy tales of Robert Louis Stevenson -- Death, myth and reality in C.S. Lewis -- Spirituality and the pleasure of the text : C.S. Lewis and the act of reading -- The lion, the witch and the Atlantean box : psychoanalysis and Narnia revisited -- Pullman, Lewis, MacDonald and the anxiety of influence -- Witches' time in Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on philosophy, theology and psychoanalysis as well as on literary criticism, this collection of essays explores a range of fantasy texts with particular attention to the various ways in which they seek to deal with the reality of death. The essays uncover some fascinating links, and indeed tensions, between the writers discussed.