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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... accepted a priori . While the authorial voice assumes that this must necessarily be the case , a counter argument is at least expressed . Moreover , Sin adds two elements to the parody of ordinary Chris- tianity , the presence of a ...
... accepted cultural polarities , but moving beyond space - time and bringing into wholeness subject , object , and universal law . The dethroning of Jove is initially an internal act , human self - freeing under the influence of that ...
... accepted we must discard it completely , an action of uncompromising exclusion that would dismiss utterly the work of such major artists as Nelly Sachs , Abba Kovner , Paul Celan , Edmond Jabès , Dan Pagis , Jacob Glatstein , as well as ...
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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