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In the mirror of the past : of fantasy and history / edited by Bogdan Trocha, Aleksander Rzyman and Tomasz Ratajczak.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Description: 1 online resource (104 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1322180121
  • 9781322180120
  • 9781443867672
  • 1443867675
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 809.38766 23
LOC classification:
  • PN3435 .I5 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Table of contents; editors; introduction; "make it old"; david gemmell's intertextual treatment of the ancient greek history in his lion of macedon and dark prince novel duo; ursula le guin's earthsea cycle; "healing fiction?"; andrea hairston's redwood & wildfire; mythic cycle vs. linear history in fantasy; the loneliness of the ancient greek hero.
Summary: These days, we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events. Searching for a way to understand them, we turn to mythic archetypes still present in our culture. The authors of these essays pose questions about the reliability of the archetypes found in tradition, history, and scattered mythologemes. The essays in this collection deal with the presence of mythic time in modern speculative fiction, such as fantasy and alternate histories, and discuss major mythologemes and their functi ...
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Table of contents; editors; introduction; "make it old"; david gemmell's intertextual treatment of the ancient greek history in his lion of macedon and dark prince novel duo; ursula le guin's earthsea cycle; "healing fiction?"; andrea hairston's redwood & wildfire; mythic cycle vs. linear history in fantasy; the loneliness of the ancient greek hero.

These days, we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events. Searching for a way to understand them, we turn to mythic archetypes still present in our culture. The authors of these essays pose questions about the reliability of the archetypes found in tradition, history, and scattered mythologemes. The essays in this collection deal with the presence of mythic time in modern speculative fiction, such as fantasy and alternate histories, and discuss major mythologemes and their functi ...

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