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9780786449422

The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock: Critical Essays on the Fiction

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    9780786449422

  • ISBN10:

    078644942X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-02-27
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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Summary

Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery And The novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore the varied output of Holdstock by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spaciotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago Wood sequence are explored, As is Holdstock's early science fiction And The Merlin Codex series.

Author Biography

Donald E. Morse is a professor at the University of Debrecen, in Hungary, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Oakland in Michigan. He is the author of a dozen books and more than 100 scholarly articles. Klmn Matolcsy is a translator, poet and composer who has written numerous scholarly articles on the literature of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Foreword: Under the Spell of a Magicianp. 1
Introduction: Mythago Wood-ôA Source of Visions and Adventureöp. 3
Approaches
The Embodiment of Abstraction in the Mythago Novelsp. 13
Masks in the Forest: The Dynamics of Surface and Depth in the Mythago Cyclep. 26
Exploring the Habitats of Myths: The Spatioemporal Structure of Ryhope Woodp. 46
The Novels
Time Winds: Early Science Fictionp. 67
Profusion Sublime and the Fantastic: Mythago Woodp. 81
Tallis, the Feminine Presence in Mythago Wood: Lavondyss: Journey to an Unknown Regionp. 96
Embedded Narratives in Lavondyss and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darknessp. 114
Stories to Illuminate Truth and Lies to Hide Pain: Gate of Ivory, Gate of Hornp. 129
ôA Heap of Broken Imagesö-The Mythological Wasteland of the Mind: The Hollowing and Ancient Echoesp. 141
ôSo many names in so many tongues…ö: Allusive Mythology in Celtikap. 156
Thresholds, Polders, and Crosshatches in the Merlin Codexp. 165
Bibliographyp. 177
About the Contributorsp. 183
Indexp. 187
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