In the Mirror of the Past : Of Fantasy and History.
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- 9781443867672
- 809.38766
- PN3435 -- .I5 2013eb
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.
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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