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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... traditional reason . The devil may hide behind the most alluring surface . In fact , in traditional literature , he frequently does . Indeed the zebra and the leopard to which she is likened may allude to lust ; the peacock may allude ...
... traditional prose novels . Furthermore , these qualities in at least some form resonate through the poems , in addition to those qualities usually associated with more tra- ditional forms of poetry , such as rhyme , meter , and poetic ...
... traditional literary ex- pectations continue to give way to humorous innovations . In both poems the settings ... traditional settings , like expecta- tions of traditional plots and characters , constantly fall prey to comically ...
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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