Name: Strategies of Fantasy
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Author: Brian Attebery
ISBN: 9780253310705

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Author

Brian Attebery

Year

1992

Language

English

Pages

180

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0253310709

ISBN13

9780253310705

Synopsis "Strategies of Fantasy"

Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader’s strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), Attebery makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within postmodern literature rather than as a simple exercise of nostalgia. Attebury examines recent and classic fantasies by Ursula K. Le Guin, John Crowley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, and Gene Wolfe, among others. In both its popular and postmodern incarnations, fantasic fiction exhibits a remarkable capacity for reinventing narrative concentions. Attebery shows how plots, characters, settings, storytelling frameworks, gender divisions, and references to cultural texts such as history and science are all called into question the moment the marvelous is admited into a story.

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Patricia MaloneTuesday, September 03, 2019
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" Un libro sumamente recomendable para los estudiosos en el tema del género fantasy. "
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