The Fantastic Imagination

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Robert H. Boyer,Kenneth J. Zahorski
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Dana Percec
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Brent H. Sudduth
Publisher : Marvel Comics
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : George MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:56584301

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The Fantastic Imagination by George MacDonald Pdf

Webpage containing full text version of the fantastic imagination / by George MacDonald.

Author : Anna Höglund,Cecilia Trenter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476642789

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The Enduring Fantastic by Anna Höglund,Cecilia Trenter Pdf

Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1414276745

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A Dish of Orts by George MacDonald Pdf

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 : George MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1930585616

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The Fantastic Imagination of George MacDonald by George MacDonald Pdf

George MacDonald's classic fantasies, fairy tales, and supernatural stories are collected in three volumes. This volume includes The Portent, At the Back of the North Wind, The Flight of the Shadow, and his essays, The Imagination: Its Functions and Its Culture and The Fantastic Imagination.

Author : Robert H. Boyer,Kenneth J. Zahorski
Publisher : New York : Avon Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015042602287

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Fantasists on Fantasy by Robert H. Boyer,Kenneth J. Zahorski Pdf

Eighteen fantasy writers share the secrets of their craft in essays, excerpts, and letters.

Author : James Branch Cabell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN : UOM:39015030728680

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The Music from Behind the Moon by James Branch Cabell Pdf

Author : Warren Lapine,Harlan Ellison,Mike Resnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Kenneth J. Zahorski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:7415110

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The Fantastic Imagination by Kenneth J. Zahorski Pdf

Author : Dana Percec
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fantasy literature
ISBN : OCLC:887810585

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Reading the Fantastic Imagination by Dana Percec Pdf