02494nam 22005531 450 991080793450332120230803220359.00-19-937931-90-19-931606-60-19-931608-2(CKB)2550000001159461(EBL)1561208(OCoLC)863045320(Au-PeEL)EBL1561208(CaPaEBR)ebr10796875(CaONFJC)MIL542665(MiAaPQ)EBC1561208(EXLCZ)99255000000115946120130708h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierStories about stories fantasy and the remaking of myth /Brian AtteberyOxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-931607-4 1-306-11414-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Fantasy as a route to myth -- Taxonomic Interlude: a note on genres -- Make it old: the other mythic method -- Silver lies and spinning wheels: Christian myth in MacDonald and Lewis -- Romance and formula, myth and memorate -- Expanding the territory: colonial fantasy -- Angels, fantasy, and belief -- Literalist Interlude: burning Harry Potter -- The postcolonial fantastic -- Coyote's eyes: situated fantasy.Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an argument about its nature and importance.Fantasy literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcLiterature and mythMyth in literatureFantasy literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Literature and myth.Myth in literature.809.3/8766Attebery Brian1951-456745MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807934503321Stories about stories3978403UNINA