| Description |
1 online resource |
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Cover; Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: Fantasies of Antiquity; Part I: Classical Apparitions in (Pre-)Modern Fantasy; 1. Classical Epic and the Poetics of Modern Fantasy; 2. Theorizing Fantasy: Enchantment, Parody, and the Classical Tradition; 3. The Mirror Crack'd: Fractured Classicisms in the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Illustration; 4. Classical Antiquity and the Timeless Horrors of H. P. Lovecraft; Part II: False Medievalism and Other Ancient Fantasies |
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5. Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit6. C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses; 7. A Time for Fantasy: Retelling Apuleius in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces; Part III: Children and (Other) Ancient Monsters; 8. The Classical Pantheon in Children's Fantasy Literature; 9. Orestes and the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter Series; 10. Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy; 11. Girls in Bears' Clothing in Greek Myth and Disney/Pixar's Brave |
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Part IV: (Post)Modern Fantasies of Antiquity12. Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The Brainsex Paintings" (Plainwater); 13. Aeneas' American New World in Jo Graham's Black Ships; 14. Genre, Mimesis, and Virgilian Intertext in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy presents fifteen all-new essays on how fantasy draws on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice. Ranging from harpies to hobbits, from Cyclopes to Cthulhu, the comparative study of Classics and fantasy reveals deep similarities between ancient and modern ways of imagining the world |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Fantasy fiction -- Classical influences
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Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fantasy fiction
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rogers, Brett M., editor.
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Stevens, Benjamin Eldon, editor.
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| ISBN |
0190610077 |
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9780190610074 |
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9780190610081 |
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0190610085 |
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