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Twentieth-century Fantasists : Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Twentieth-century Mythopoeic Literature by Kath Filmer is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Twentieth-century Fantasists : Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Twentieth-century Mythopoeic Literature about?
Many of the developments and concerns of the twentieth century have been anticipated by the writers of fantasy fiction. In this collection of essays, Kath Filmer has gathered specialist writers who examine the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, H. G. Wells, Ursula Le Guin and others, as works of social and cultural criticism. Essays in this book also deal with contemporary writers of fantasy - Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, and children's writers Alan Garner and Madeleine L'Engle. Other ess
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- Author
- Kath Filmer
- Publisher
- Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312079598
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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