Nature and the numinous in mythopoeic fantasy literature /
[Book]
Chris Brawley.
ix, 199 pages ;
23 cm.
Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.
"Quieting the eye" : the perception of the eternal through the temporal in Coleridge's The rime of the ancient mariner -- The ideal and the shadow : George MacDonald's Phantastes -- "Further up and further in" : apocalypse and the new Narnia in C.S. Lewis's The last battle -- The fading of the world : Tolkien's ecology and loss in The lord of the rings -- Affirming the world that swerves : the alter-tales in Algernon Blackwood's The centaur and Ursula Le Guin's Buffalo gals and other animal presences -- "A daisy is nearer heaven than an airship" : the utopian vision in Algernon Blackwood's The centaur -- "Yes. You can keep your eye: : Ursula Le Guin's Buffalo gals and other animal presences -- The sacramental vision : perceiving the world anew.
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"This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works which engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world"--
Blackwood, Algernon,1869-1951-- Criticism and interpretation.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,1772-1834-- Criticism and interpretation.
Le Guin, Ursula K.,1929-Criticism and interpretation.
Lewis, C. S., (Clive Staples),1898-1963-- Criticism and interpretation.
MacDonald, George,1824-1905-- Criticism and interpretation.
Tolkien, J. R. R., (John Ronald Reuel),1892-1973-- Criticism and interpretation.