Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature

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Автор: Brian Stableford

Название: Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature

Издательство: The Scarecrow Press

Год: 2005

Формат: pdf in rar

Размер: 1.71 Мб

Язык: Английский

История фэнтези, от зарождения жанра до 21-го столетия; специфика жанра, его разновидности; терминология, используемая в критике; связь с другими жанрами. Книга содержит обширную библиографию.

The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.