02136oam 22004094 450 991042515480332120220526183006.0(CKB)4100000011610429(OCoLC)1281933573(MdBmJHUP)musev2_80770(EXLCZ)99410000001161042920200528d20202020 uy 0engur||#||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCritique of fantasyVol. 2 the contest between B-genres /Laurence A. RickelsSanta Barbara, California :Brainstorm Books,2020©20201 online resource (235 pages) digital filePrint version: 9781953035189 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Fantasy literatureHistory and criticismFiction genresElectronic books.Fantasy literatureHistory and criticismFiction genres.809.38766Rickels Laurence A.886893MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910425154803321Critique of fantasy2853550UNINA