One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle and Orson Scott CardMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2008 M02 4 - 263 páginas This work presents the genre of mythopoeic fantasy from a holistic perspective, arguing that this central genre of fantasy literature is largely misunderstood as a result of decades of incomplete and reductionist literary studies. The author asserts that mythopoeic fantasy is not only the most complete literary expression of a worldview based on the existence of supernatural or spiritual powers but that the genre is in a unique position to transform social consciousness with a renewed emphasis on anticipating the future. The author lays out theoretical foundations for his argument in the first four chapters and then demonstrates how the works of fantasy authors Ursula K. LeGuin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle, and Orson Scott Card exemplify his argument in the remaining four chapters. |
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... knowledge and fantasy as a worldview which presupposes the exis- tence of the supernatural overlap in that it is through poetic knowledge that the supernatural is sensed as real though impossible to prove . That holists did not use the ...
... knowledge and fantasy as a worldview which presupposes the exis- tence of the supernatural overlap in that it is through poetic knowledge that the supernatural is sensed as real though impossible to prove . That holists did not use the ...
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... knowledge , " poetic knowl- edge " reveals rather a way of knowledge , " Yolen asserts that fantasy narratives , myth and folklore have four major functions in the intellectual development of the child ( 31 ) . Although they do not give ...
... knowledge , " poetic knowl- edge " reveals rather a way of knowledge , " Yolen asserts that fantasy narratives , myth and folklore have four major functions in the intellectual development of the child ( 31 ) . Although they do not give ...
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... knowledge in all those areas . This problem with the name is the fourth area in which philosophers ' reflection on poetic knowledge overlaps with holistic critics ' reflection on the core of fantasy . The lack of one name is the reason ...
... knowledge in all those areas . This problem with the name is the fourth area in which philosophers ' reflection on poetic knowledge overlaps with holistic critics ' reflection on the core of fantasy . The lack of one name is the reason ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
Theoretical Era | 13 |
Reductionist and Holistic Criticisms in a Battle of Worldviews | 39 |
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Alexander's American approach archetypal argued asserts Attebery Attebery's believe C.S. Lewis called Card's Celtic century chapter Children's Literature Christian Chronicles Chronicles of Prydain claims concept consciousness contemporary creative cultural dragons dream Earthsea sequence Egoff Essays ethical fantasy example experience explored fairy fantasists fantasy criticism Fantasy Literature genre Guin Guin's High Fantasy holistic critics human idea imaginative Jung Jung's L'Engle's land Lewis Lewis's literary live Lloyd Alexander Madeleine L'Engle magic means mode modern moral Mormon mythic mythology mythopoeia mythopoeic fantasy mythopoesis narrative novels Orson Scott Card past perspective philosophy poetic knowledge present protagonists Prydain psychological Quartet quest readers reality reductionist reflects religion religious says Science Fiction sense specific spiritual story structure suggest supernatural Taoist Taran tasy Tehanu Tenar theme theory things tion Tolkien tradition transcendence trilogy truth unconscious understanding Ursula Ursula K Ursula Le Guin vision Welsh myth Wind worldview Wrinkle writers York