Can I read Stories About Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth on EtoBox?

Stories About Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth by Brian Attebery [Attebery, Brian] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stories About Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth about?

Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with myth are worked out. The book offers a comprehensive history of the modern fantastic as well as an argument about its nature and importance. Specific chapters cover the origins of fantasy in the Romantic search for localized myths, fantasy versions of the Modernist turn toward the primitive, the post-Tolkienian exploration of world mythologies, post-colonial reactions to the exploitation of indigenous sacred narratives by Western writers, fantasies based in Christian belief alongside fundamentalist attempts to stamp out the form, and the emergence of ever-more sophisticated structures such as metafiction through which to explore mythic constructions of reality.**Review"I highly recommend Brian Attebery's new book. It's a scholarly work, but it reads with bright clarity as takes us back and forth between fantasy and myth, showing not only the connections, but also how the best of fantasy is

Who reads Stories About Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth?

Author

Brian Attebery [Attebery, Brian]

Publisher

OUP USA

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780842357623

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Crafts & Hobbies

Rating

4.21 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13