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Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy : Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy - Chris Brawley

Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy

By: Chris Brawley, Donald E. Palumbo (Editor), III C. W. Sullivan (Editor)

Paperback | 14 July 2014

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The Sacramental Vision attempts to make connections between mythopoeic fantasy, loosely defined as works which engage the numinous, and the critical apparatuses of Ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world. Beginning with S.T. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the book moves on to explore standard mythopoeic fantasists such as George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Taking a step outside these mythopoeic fantasists, who are particularly influenced by Christianity, the concluding chapters discuss Algernon Blackwood and Ursula Le Guin, two authors whose work evokes the numinous without a specifically Christian worldview.
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"Brawley puts a fresh spin on classic mythopoeic fantasy...his ideas are intriguing...recommended"-Choice; "enticing. Through interaction with fantasy literature, Brawley succeeds in widening the field of ecocriticism to include nonmimetic literature"-Oxford University Press Journals Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.

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