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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... attempted arguing that fantasy is that which veers from consensus - reality , but such a notion is ethnocentric at best ... attempt to define fantasy . Strand himself implies a reader- response orientation when he comments that for him ...
... attempt to use lan- guage to convey to her listeners the object of that longing : The speaker in this case is a middle - aged witch , me— tangled on my two great arms , my face in a book and my mouth wide , ready to tell you a story or ...
... attempt to reduce the fantastic language and disjointed or- ganization of poems . Making the extended meaning , the theme , the primary feature of poetic experimentation is an attempt also to make the absurd intelligible by translating ...
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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