The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving GenrePatrick Dennis Murphy, Vernon Hyles Bloomsbury Academic, 1989 M11 20 - 201 pages A groundbreaking contribution to the critical literature, this volume represents the most extensive study of the fantastic in poetry published to date. Designed to serve both as an introduction to and a historical overview of fantastic poetry in the Anglo-American tradition, the authors closely analyze specific periods and poems in order to illuminate more clearly the relationships among fantasty, the fantastic, science fiction, and poetry. The scope of the study is unusually broad and encompasses material from Spenser through the work of a wide range of contemporary American and British poets. |
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... Lycius through the theories of Erich Neumann's The Great Mother . She sees Lycius sinking to the lowest level of his unconscious in his alliance with the snake - woman ( 122-23 ) . Such are frequently the connotations of the snake ...
... Lycius " from one trance was wakening / Into another ” ( Mahoney 624 ) . Nevertheless , Lamia wakes Lycius to beauty . Her trance is preferable . At the end of part 1 , Lycius does not avoid Apol- lonius through a compulsion to escape ...
... Lycius forces Lamia to integrate with the Corinthian marketplace , he involves her in heavy sadomasochism , forcing her to grovel before him and to love it . This does not bode well . There is no way that we can read Lycius's sadism ...
Contents
The Poetry of the Fantastic Vernon Hyles | 1 |
Poetry and the PreFantastic Peter Malekin | 11 |
Lamia as Muse Martha Nochimson | 29 |
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