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  • Classic Fantasy Stories

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
    From the eerie to the magical by way of the deeply strange, this collection of short stories is a must for all fantasy fans.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince draws on the great fairy tale ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Rhetorics of Fantasy

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers "new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work" ( Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts).Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spring Flowering

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Everything changes for Ann Gray when her father dies and her closest friend Jane marries and moves away. Ann must give up the independence and purpose she found as mistress of her father's parsonage in the country, and move to her uncle and aunt's new-style house in the growing city of Birmingham. The friendship of Ann's cousins - especially the mathematically inclined Louisa - is some ... Read more

    $5.50 USD

  • Rhetorics of Fantasy

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four categories of fantasy—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Practicing Peace: Quaker Relief Work in the Spanish Civil War

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Quakers in the 20th century redefined their pacifist witness to include relief for the victims of war. Drawing upon research in archives plus interviews with surviving participants, Farah Mendlesohn provides an account of British and American friends' relief to both sides in the Spanish Civil war. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rejected Essays and Buried Thoughts

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Most writers have pieces that went wrong somewhere in the process and never saw the light of day, or material that disappeared. This is my collection, some rejects, some conference papers that never got written up due to time constraints or lack of a suitable venue, and several that were published before online publication. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Joanna Russ's writing career was relatively short, running from 1968 to 1987, with a number of essay collections published in the years after that. Her fiction career consists of just six novels and four collections, but each of the novels she published challenged engrained conventions of the genre. This exploration of The Female Man offers a close reading of the text, focussing on how the book ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Diana Wynne Jones

    The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy tradition. This is ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Creating Memory

    Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars

    by Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction—primarily fiction for the young. The text argues that the English Civil War lies at the heart of English and Irish political identities and considers how these identities have been shaped over the past three centuries in part by the children’s literature that has influenced ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Fantasy Girls

    Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television

    by Elyce Rae Helford, Linda Badley, Marleen S. Barr, Hanley E. Kanar, Nicole Matthews, Farah Mendlesohn, Sharon Ney, Kent A. Ono, Sarah Projansky, Robin A. Roberts, Jessica A. Royer, Elaine M. Sciog-Lazarov, Leah R. Vande Berg, Rhonda V. Wilcox ...
    A new collection on women in American television in the 90s uncovers a cultural obsession with tough yet sexy heroines in mythical pasts, the 'girl power' present, and utopic futures. Xena, Buffy, Sabrina, and a host of other characters have become household words, as well as icons of pop culture 'feminism.' Their popularity makes for successful programming, however, how much does this trend truly ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • A Short History of Fantasy

    by Farah Mendlesohn, Edward James ...
    Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel. Tracing the history of fantasy from the earliest years through to the origins of modern fantasy in the 20th century, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children's Fantasy Literature

    An Introduction

    by Michael Levy, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the work of ... Read more

    $27.89 USD