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Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 46) by Chris Brawley; Donald E. Palumbo; C.W. Sullivan III is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the book moves on
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- Author
- Chris Brawley; Donald E. Palumbo; C.W. Sullivan III
- Publisher
- McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781476615820
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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