Reading The Fantastic Imagination

Author : Dana Percec
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443862974

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Reading the Fantastic Imagination by Dana Percec Pdf

The purpose of Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre is the observation of the very hybridity of the fantastic genre, as a typical postmodern form. The volume continues an older project of the editor and a large number of the contributors, that of investigating the current status of several popular genres, from historical fiction to romance. The scrutiny continues in this third volume, dedicated to the fantastic imagination and the plethora of themes, moods, media, and formats deriving from it. FanLit is surely trendy, even if it is not highbrow, despite its noble ancestry. This apparent paradox characterizes many of the literary genres en vogue today, from historical fiction to romance. This very contradiction forms part of the basis for this book. After the success of the previous book in the series dedicated to a “borderline” literary genre – Romance: The History of a Genre was declared by Cambridge Scholars Publishing as the Critics’ Choice Book of the Month in January 2013 – this collection of studies about the fantastic imagination takes a further step into completing a larger research project which seeks to investigate the varieties of popular fiction. Although all contributors in the series teach canonical literary texts, they did not hesitate to plunge into the opposite area of fictional work and, moreover, continued doing so even though such a project caused the “raise of a few (high)brows,” (Percec 2012, 232) as argued in the Endnote of Romance: The History of a Genre.

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781528790734

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The Fantastic Imagination by George MacDonald Pdf

“The Fantastic Imagination” is a 1893 essay by Scottish writer George MacDonald (1824–1905). A pioneer of fantasy literature, MacDonald was the mentor of Lewis Carroll and influenced the work of many other notable writers including J. M. Barrie, Mark Twain, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien. This fascinating essay concentrates on writing and imagination, offering expert insights into fantasy and fiction writing by a master of the genre. Highly recommended for fantasy readers and writers alike. Contents include: “George Macdonald, by Richard Watson Gilder”, “Fairy Tales, by G. K. Chesterton”, “The Fantastic Imagination, by George Macdonald”. Other notable works by this author include: “At the Back of the North Wind” (1871), “The Princess and the Goblin” (1872), and “The Wise Woman: A Parable” (1875). Read & Co. Great Essays is republishing this classic essay now complete with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton.

Author : Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479806072

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The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Pdf

Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”

Author : Dana Percec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fantasy literature
ISBN : OCLC:887810585

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Reading the Fantastic Imagination by Dana Percec Pdf

Author : Brent H. Sudduth
Publisher : Marvel Comics
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0696225085

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Fantastic Four by Brent H. Sudduth Pdf

When the Fantastic Four are to be given a heroes award, their evil nemesis, Dr. Doom, returns.

Author : Robert H. Boyer,Kenneth J. Zahorski
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 038041533X

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The Fantastic Imagination II by Robert H. Boyer,Kenneth J. Zahorski Pdf

A collection of fantasy literature chosen from the most popular works of the past 100 years, and including brief biographical sketches of each author.

Author : Warren Lapine,Harlan Ellison,Mike Resnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161720787X

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Fantastic Stories of the Imagination by Warren Lapine,Harlan Ellison,Mike Resnick Pdf

"Contains fourteen nicely varied stories by some of the top names in genre publishing and several new up-and-comers"--Publisher's description.

Author : Lisa Tuttle
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553901283

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The Mysteries by Lisa Tuttle Pdf

Award-winning author Lisa Tuttle delivers a riveting novel combining one man’s search for a missing woman with history’s most enduring legends of the disappeared. “A thriller, detective story, and fantasy all in one . . . Unique, a winner!”—Dean Koontz What happens when someone vanishes without a trace? Ian Kennedy always had a penchant for stories about missing people—and a knack for finding them. Now a sought-after private investigator, Ian faces a case he fears he cannot solve . . . and one he knows he must. Laura Lensky’s stunning twenty-one-year-old daughter, Peri, has been missing for over two years. But when Ian learns the details of her disappearance, he discovers eerie parallels to an obscure Celtic myth and the haunting case that launched his career—a success he’s never fully been able to explain. Though Ian suspects that Peri chose to vanish, he takes on the search. What follows leads him and those who care for Peri into the Highlands of Scotland, as the unknowns of the past and present merge in the case—and in their lives. Praise for The Mysteries “Lisa Tuttle never disappoints. . . . Richly imagined and beautifully written, The Mysteries lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned.”—George R. R. Martin “A remarkable piece of work . . . Successfully balancing the miraculous and the mundane, The Mysteries offers a variety of unexpected pleasures and marks the overdue return of a stylish, distinctive storyteller.”—Washington Post Book World “Superlative dark fantasy . . . Tuttle has total command of setting, style and her folklore sources.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Matthew Solomon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438435824

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Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination by Matthew Solomon Pdf

"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity. In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself.

Author : Nicola O'Byrne
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Imagination
ISBN : 076368001X

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Use Your Imagination by Nicola O'Byrne Pdf

Wolf urges a bored Rabbit to use his imagination to create a story, but when Rabbit realizes the wolf's intentions he uses his imagination to create a surprise ending to his story.

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1414276745

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A Dish of Orts by George MacDonald Pdf

Author : Kenneth J. Zahorski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:7415110

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The Fantastic Imagination by Kenneth J. Zahorski Pdf

Author : Diana Patterson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443816281

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Harry Potter’s World Wide Influence by Diana Patterson Pdf

The Harry Potter series forms a single epic story that has been published in nearly 70 languages, and has been examined in a large number of disciplines. This collection of essays contributes to the scholarly discourse that forms Potter Studies. These essays take on the consideration of Rowling's work as being worthy of study as a phenomenon and influence, as well as a work of literary value. They add genuine statistical information about the reasons for the books' popularity, consider their effects on child readers, and examine some deep-rooted reasons for their having been manipulated in American publishing, in film adaptations, in musical complements, and in their thingification in popular culture around the world. Some of these essays take on the critics of the books' religion and considerations of psychological, as well as philosophical good and evil, and well as some stylistic anomalies. The fact that scholars from China, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Israel, in addition to English-speaking nations, have felt compelled to examine these books in detail testifies in part to Harry Potter's world-wide influence.

Author : Brad Montague
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593323489

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The Fantastic Bureau of Imagination by Brad Montague Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Brad Montague comes a top-secret, behind-the-scenes peek at the official agency that keeps the world's creativity flowing. Every day, special figment agent Sparky delivers all the mail the FBI receives to the proper department, like the Office of the Unexplainable or the Department of Dreams. It's a big job, but Sparky keeps everything running smoothly . . . until disaster strikes when the Cave of Untold Stories overflows and threatens to topple the whole bureau. It turns out too many people have been holding in their big ideas, and now Sparky must recruit more agents to share their dreams, songs, and stories with the world. And now, dear reader, will you join the effort and become a special agent before it's too late? The FBI is counting on you!

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547173564

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A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare" by George MacDonald. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.