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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... physically appeared . The figure who presents himself to the " I " of Snyder's poem assures the speaker that he did kill himself , and before delivering his message to " teach the children ... physical presence who declares he Foreword xxi.
... physical - ethereal contrast recurs later in the case of Duessa , and again in the Bower of Bliss . The description of the snake - woman Error functions as part of a network of incompatible dualities , truth versus error , the ...
... physical effects on the reader . They alter the way in which our understanding functions . This allows us to grasp patterns , to see things as wholes ( gestalts ) ; to become more responsive to rhythm or other sound patterns , to 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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