LIBROS DEL AUTOR: colin nmanlove

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  • The Impulse of Fantasy Literature
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    This book grew out of the author’s wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy is ultimately concerned to heighten and praise being, whether that being is God’s creation, the world, or the creations of the fantasy writer themselves. This interest can tak...
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    21,29 €

  • Critical Thinking
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    Students need a book which can show them actual means of thinking their way into literary texts. Too often they are put off by the resistant surface of literature, or made apprehensive by its eminence, or are convinced that there is nothing more than the obvious to be said about it. This book aims to meet this need. It seeks to involve the student in the actual process of think...
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  • The Gap in Shakespeare
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    The first purpose of this book is to provide new readings of many of Shakespeare’s major plays, unhampered by bardolatry and, so far as possible, by critical preconceptions. Among the interpretations is an argument that contradictions found in Othello emerge ultimately from Shakespeare’s inability to portray a developing heterosexual relationship in any of his plays; that King ...
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    22,14 €

  • The Fantasy Literature of England
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy’s modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subv...
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    23,49 €

  • Modern Fantasy
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    After a decade from 1965 which had seen the growth in Britain and America of an enormous interest in fantasy literature, and a rise in its academic repute from cold to lukewarm, a serious study of the subject seemed long overdue. In this first critical book in its time on modern English fantasy, Colin Manlove surveys a representative group of modern fantasies--in the Victorian ...
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    30,95 €