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Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Book 19
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Fantasy writing, like literature in general, provides a powerful vehicle for challenging the status quo. Via symbolism, imagery and supernaturalism, fantasy constructs secondary-world narratives that both mirror and critique the political paradigms of our own world. This critical work explores... read more
Table of Contents edit
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
PART I
Women and Other Magical Creatures: Portals in Romance and Fairy Tale
1. Who Wears the Pants in Faerie? The Woman Question in William Morris's The Wood Beyond the World
2. "For I am but a girl": The Problem of Female Power in Ford Madox Ford's The Brown Owl
PART II
Charms, Places, and Little Girls: Portals in Children's Literature
3. E. Nesbit and the Magic Word: Empowering Child and Woman in Real-World Fantasy
4. Lost Boys to Men: Romanticism and the Magic of the Female Imagination in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
PART III
Haunted Houses and the Hidden Self: Portals in the Gothic, Low Fantasy, and Science Fiction
5. Confronting Chaos at the In-Between: William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland
6. The Society Insider/Outsider and the Sympathetic Supernatural in Fantastic Tales by Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde
PART IV
Haunting History: The Portal in Modern/Postmodern Fantasy
7. One World to Rule Them All: The Un-Making and Re-Making of the Symbolic Portal in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
8. Harry Potter and the Ultimate In-Between: J.K. Rowling's Portals of Power
9. Portals Between Then and Now: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Stroud
Chaper Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series & Lists edit
This is book 19 of 33 in Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy. (publisher series)
Preceded by Ursula K. Le Guin's Journey to Post-Feminism, and followed by The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lori M. Campbell (Author)
- Donald Palumbo (Editor) - Series Editor
- C. W. Sullivan III (Editor) - Series Editor
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.0876608
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