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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... Transformations ( 1971 ) , is an odd fusion of the confessional realist genre with re - workings of classic fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm . She wrote it at the height of a stellar career . It sold more hardcover copies than any of ...
... Transformations we do not confront a fantasy world that competes with or begs to be compared to the real world of mundane occurrences . Rather , we read Transformations and feel As if an enlarged paper clip could be a piece of sculpture ...
... Transformations ' is a sort of Disneyland revamp of an ancient Gothic castle " ( " One Poet's Freud , " 21 ) . Clearly the poems were only minimally acceptable to the point that they mocked the fantasy tradition . To take Disneyland ...
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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