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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... elements in poems by Mark Strand and four contem- porary British authors respectively , Carl Schaffer treats holo- caust poetry , Karen Michalson analyzes Anne Sexton's Transformations , and Michael Collings grapples with the concept of ...
... elements of the story , wondering whether they are products of the fictional world or of Dymer's fantasizing mind . And with this hesitation presiding in the reader's treatment of details , the nar- rator has Dymer break through into a ...
... each in its own way , incomprehensible , evoke in the reader that " profound hes- itation " Todorov insists must precede belief if we are Fantastic Elements in Carl Schaffer Holocaust Poetry: Abba Kovner's "Ahoti Ktanah"
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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