TY - BOOK AU - Trocha,Bogdan AU - Rzyman,Aleksander AU - Ratajczak,Tomasz TI - In the Mirror of the Past: Of Fantasy and History SN - 9781443867672 AV - PN3435 -- .I5 2013eb U1 - 809.38766 PY - 2013/// CY - Newcastle-upon-Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing KW - Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism KW - Alternative histories (Fiction) -- History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- EDITORS -- INTRODUCTION -- "MAKE IT OLD" -- DAVID GEMMELL'S INTERTEXTUAL TREATMENT OF THE ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY IN HIS LION OF MACEDON AND DARK PRINCE NOVEL DUO -- URSULA LE GUIN'S EARTHSEA CYCLE -- "HEALING FICTION?" -- ANDREA HAIRSTON'S REDWOOD & -- WILDFIRE -- MYTHIC CYCLE VS. LINEAR HISTORY IN FANTASY -- THE LONELINESS OF THE ANCIENT GREEK HERO N2 - These days, we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events. Searching for a way to understand them, we turn to mythic archetypes still present in our culture. The authors of these essays pose questions about the reliability of the archetypes found in tradition, history, and scattered mythologemes. The essays in this collection deal with the presence of mythic time in modern speculative fiction, such as fantasy and alternate histories, and discuss major mythologemes and their functi UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1800438 ER -