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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... story , to upgrade our mythology so that it applies to the modern situa- tion . This new mythology , Joseph Campbell , Bede Griffiths and others assert , will be marked by four qualities . It will be the story for the whole human race ...
... story , to upgrade our mythology so that it applies to the modern situa- tion . This new mythology , Joseph Campbell , Bede Griffiths and others assert , will be marked by four qualities . It will be the story for the whole human race ...
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... story whose message cannot be told but must be felt , mythopoeic fantasy conveys “ a feeling of the supernatural , the mystical , and the spiritual ” and stands at the center of fantasy as a worldview ( 31 ) . Because it is a kind of story ...
... story whose message cannot be told but must be felt , mythopoeic fantasy conveys “ a feeling of the supernatural , the mystical , and the spiritual ” and stands at the center of fantasy as a worldview ( 31 ) . Because it is a kind of story ...
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... story is of paramount importance for it may encompass any human activity and contains a culture's inherited memory . Although Alexander is far from sug- gesting that the story is everything tradition is about , or that to be valuable the ...
... story is of paramount importance for it may encompass any human activity and contains a culture's inherited memory . Although Alexander is far from sug- gesting that the story is everything tradition is about , or that to be valuable the ...
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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