Fantasy Echoes Thesis Project
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jhameiaSince I decided very vaguely that I'll be writing on some aspect of the epic fantasy for my Honours thesis, I thought I'd better get to work on it now even though it's only my third year and I'm putting it off until my fifth year.
Strange behaviour from NaNoWriMo.org has kindly shared with me a whole list of academic sources on fantasy.
Academic writing on fantasy
Armitt, Lucie. Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000.
Armitt, Lucie. Theorising the Fantastic. London: Arnold, 1996.
Attebery, Brian. Strategies of Fantasy. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure Especially of the Fantastic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.
Day, William Patrick. In the Circles of Fear and Desire: A Study of Gothic Fantasy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.
Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London: Routledge, 1981.
Le Guin, Ursula. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979.
Little, Edmund. The Fantasts: Studies in J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Nikolay Gogol and Kenneth Grahame. Amersham: Avebury, 1984.
Manlove, C. N. Modern Fantasy: Five Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1975.
Matthews, Richard. Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination. London: Routledge, 2002.
Rosebury, Brian. Tolkien: A Critical Assessment. Basingstoke: St Martin’s, 1992.
Shippey, T. A. J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Spivak, Charlotte. Merlin’s Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy. New York: Greenwood, 1987.
Swinfen, Ann. In Defense of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945. London: Routledge, 1984.
Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. 1970. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Cornell UP, 1975.
Tolkien, J.R.R. “On Fairy-stories.” Tree and Leaf. London: Unwin, 1964.
Watney, John. Mervyn Peake. London: Michael Joseph, 1976.
Thanks for the recommendations, strange behaviour. I already found the Swinfen book, which is really kinda wicked cool.
Now to find a teacher-advisor...
Strange behaviour from NaNoWriMo.org has kindly shared with me a whole list of academic sources on fantasy.
Academic writing on fantasy
Armitt, Lucie. Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000.
Armitt, Lucie. Theorising the Fantastic. London: Arnold, 1996.
Attebery, Brian. Strategies of Fantasy. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure Especially of the Fantastic. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.
Day, William Patrick. In the Circles of Fear and Desire: A Study of Gothic Fantasy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.
Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London: Routledge, 1981.
Le Guin, Ursula. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979.
Little, Edmund. The Fantasts: Studies in J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, Nikolay Gogol and Kenneth Grahame. Amersham: Avebury, 1984.
Manlove, C. N. Modern Fantasy: Five Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1975.
Matthews, Richard. Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination. London: Routledge, 2002.
Rosebury, Brian. Tolkien: A Critical Assessment. Basingstoke: St Martin’s, 1992.
Shippey, T. A. J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Spivak, Charlotte. Merlin’s Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy. New York: Greenwood, 1987.
Swinfen, Ann. In Defense of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945. London: Routledge, 1984.
Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. 1970. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Cornell UP, 1975.
Tolkien, J.R.R. “On Fairy-stories.” Tree and Leaf. London: Unwin, 1964.
Watney, John. Mervyn Peake. London: Michael Joseph, 1976.
Thanks for the recommendations, strange behaviour. I already found the Swinfen book, which is really kinda wicked cool.
Now to find a teacher-advisor...