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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... experience " ( it is experience unlike others , because there is no duality ) is indeed a model of the Plotinian type , in which the dualities of subject - object consciousness " spring from " that which is neither consciousness nor ...
... experiences have led the reader to understand , there is no bridging the gap between these separate spheres of exis ... experience , Lewis makes the reader undergo the same process of erroneous daydreaming and of oscillation between the ...
... experience , rather than the abstract understanding , of possibilities normally regarded as fan- tastic or extraordinary . Transforming these possibilities into sounds and images that will awaken the reader is the other part of the ...
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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