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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... sense . It evokes disgust and violence . The intense nausea and the filth associated with the female snake are part of her extreme physicality and bound up in the description with the processes of suckling and giving birth as well as ...
... sense , then Keats was at least working in a similar direction . It is a direction that subsumes and transforms the fantastic and leaves behind the categories of dualistic criticism . This is a po- tentiality that is realized by another ...
... sense of words upon mine ear . Panthea . An universal sound like words : Oh , list ! ( IV.i.510-18 ) Demogorgon is again characterized as the darkness that is be- yond light , and the universal sound / meaning that is beyond words , and ...
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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