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  • Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

    by Chris Brawley ...
    Series Book 46 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world. Beginning with S.T. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The South Seas

    A Reception History from Daniel Defoe to Dorothy Lamour

    by Chris Dixon, Sean Brawley ...
    The South Seas charts the idea of the South Seas in popular cultural productions of the English-speaking world, from the beginnings of the Western enterprise in the Pacific until the eve of the Pacific War. Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Summary and Analysis of 1984

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  • Clark Ashton Smith

    A Critical Guide to the Man and His Work, Second Edition

    by Steve Behrends ...
    Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. Together with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was one of the "Three Musketeers" of legendary Weird Tales magazine, and contributed some of the most distinctive (and controversial) fantastic fiction to ever appear in Hugo Gernsback's Wonder Stories. His "City ... Read more

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  • Environments in Science Fiction

    Essays on Alternative Spaces

    Edited by Susan M. Bernardo, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III ...
    Series Book 44 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging, play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses especially on depictions of the future that include, but move beyond, dystopias ... Read more

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  • Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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    Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix

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  • "Throw the book away"

    Reading versus Experience in Children's Fantasy

    by Amie A. Doughty ...
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  • The Innovative Use of Materials in Architecture and Landscape Architecture

    History, Theory and Performance

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