Fantasticism. Poetics of Fantastic Literature

Fanfan Chen

• Paperback | Engels | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 1
• Inspired by a universal, cross-cultural vision, this book provides a comparative analysis of the rhetorical and stylistic features in fantastic litera... Lees meer

Weit Entfernte Wunder

Thomas Scholz

• Paperback | Duits | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 4
• Das Auenland war vor langer Zeit, und Narnia liegt nur hinter der richtigen magischen Pforte - sei es ein Kleiderschrank oder ein Wandbild. Zufällig i... Lees meer

Narrating Ancient Egypt

Maria Fleischhack

• Hardcover | Engels | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 8
• Literary ancient Egypt was used by Victorian and Edwardian writers to criticize the Western mindset, both in regard to Orientalism as well as industri... Lees meer

H. G. Wells's «Fin-De-Siècle»

• Paperback | Engels | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 2
• The essays contained in this collection focus on the early H. G. Wells, the scientific romancer, the comic novelist and the young author discovering t... Lees meer

Good Dragons Are Rare

• Paperback | Engels, Duits, Frans | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 5
• Dragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time. Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these f... Lees meer

The Myth of Cokaygne in Children's Literature

Franziska Burstyn

• Paperback | Engels | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 6
• In the English-speaking world, the medieval concept of Cokaygne as a paradisiac landscape made of food is merely preserved as a part of American folkl... Lees meer

H. G. Wells in «Nature», 1893-1946

• Paperback | Engels | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 3
• Since its foundation in 1869 Nature has consistently been the pre-eminent English-language science journal, and for a period of over fifty years, H. G... Lees meer

Intertextuality and Psychology in P. L. Travers' «Mary Poppins» Books

Julia Kunz

• Hardcover | Engels | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 7
• This work analyses P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins material in terms of its intertextuality and psychological factors. It identifies elements of myth and ... Lees meer

Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible

• Hardcover | Engels | Alph: Arbeiten Zur Literarischen Phantastik / Alph: Approach | nr. 9
• This collection of articles looks at ghost stories ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary movies from different perspectives, both interdiscipli... Lees meer