LEADER 03671nam 22006735 450 001 9910588591203321 005 20240322021140.0 010 $a9783031103742$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031103735 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-10374-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7076031 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7076031 035 $a(CKB)24723838600041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-10374-2 035 $a(BIP)084445684 035 $a(OCoLC)1342500533 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924723838600041 100 $a20220820d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRobert Holdstock's Mythago Wood $eA Critical Companion /$fby Paul Kincaid 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (98 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,$x2662-8570 311 08$aPrint version: Kincaid, Paul Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031103735 327 $a1 Introduction: Into the Wood -- 2 War -- 3 Time -- 4 Myth -- 5 Aftermath -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Paul Kincaid's engaging discussion of Robert Holdstock's masterwork is a model of enlightening criticism, providing both historical and literary contexts without resorting to special pleading or academic jargon. Even readers who have long loved Mythago Wood are likely to be pleasantly surprised at how thoroughly Kincaid unravels the true depth and complexity of the novel." -Gary K. Wolfe, Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Roosevelt University, USA This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. It goes through Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock considering how it engages with war on a personal and family level, how it plays with ideas of time as something fluid and disturbing, and how it presents mythology as something crude and dangerous. The book places Mythago Wood in the context of Holdstock's other works, noting in parthow complex ideas of time have been a consistent element in his fiction. The book also briefly examines how the themes laid out in Mythago Wood are carried through into later books in the sequence as well as the Merlin Codex. Paul Kincaid is the author of books on Iain Banks, Christopher Priest, and Brian Aldiss, as well as two collections of essays. He has twice won the BSFA Non-Fiction Award and has also received the Science Fiction Research Association's Thomas Clareson Award. 410 0$aPalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,$x2662-8570 606 $aFiction 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aLiterary Criticism 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Criticism. 676 $a809.3 676 $a823.92 700 $aKincaid$b Paul$01094553 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910588591203321 996 $aRobert Holdstock's Mythago Wood$92907952 997 $aUNINA