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In the Mirror of the Past : Of Fantasy and History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (112 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443867672
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In the Mirror of the PastDDC classification:
  • 809.38766
LOC classification:
  • PN3435 -- .I5 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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 &amp -- WILDFIRE -- MYTHIC CYCLE VS. LINEAR HISTORY IN FANTASY -- THE LONELINESS OF THE ANCIENT GREEK HERO.
Summary: 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.
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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 &amp -- WILDFIRE -- MYTHIC CYCLE VS. LINEAR HISTORY IN FANTASY -- THE LONELINESS OF THE ANCIENT GREEK HERO.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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