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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... moral , religious , social and political idealisms , to the general consid- eration of the value of fantasy as a literary genre , in all of those Swinfen is aware of “ the conscious moral basis of much serious fantasy " ( 147 ) and ...
... moral , religious , social and political idealisms , to the general consid- eration of the value of fantasy as a literary genre , in all of those Swinfen is aware of “ the conscious moral basis of much serious fantasy " ( 147 ) and ...
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... morality rather than to moralizing . It points to the supernat- ural , but establishes moral premises for the supernatural within the work itself , since in today's world no widely accepted body of belief , including Christianity , can ...
... morality rather than to moralizing . It points to the supernat- ural , but establishes moral premises for the supernatural within the work itself , since in today's world no widely accepted body of belief , including Christianity , can ...
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... moral enterprise . This argument can be found in John Gardner's 1975 On Moral Fiction , in Colin McGinn's 1992 Moral Literacy and his 1997 Ethics , Evil , and Fiction , in Wayne Booth's 1988 The Company We Keep : An Ethics of Fiction ...
... moral enterprise . This argument can be found in John Gardner's 1975 On Moral Fiction , in Colin McGinn's 1992 Moral Literacy and his 1997 Ethics , Evil , and Fiction , in Wayne Booth's 1988 The Company We Keep : An Ethics of Fiction ...
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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