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Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

Authors :
Chris Brawley
Donald E. Palumbo
C.W. Sullivan III
Chris Brawley
Donald E. Palumbo
C.W. Sullivan III
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that 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. Beginning with S.T. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the book moves on to explore standard mythopoeic fantasists such as George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Taking a step outside these men, particularly influenced by Christianity, the concluding chapters discuss Algernon Blackwood and Ursula Le Guin, whose works evoke the numinous without a specifically Christian worldview.

Details

Language :
English
ISBNs :
9780786494651 and 9781476615820
Database :
eBook Index
Journal :
Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature
Publication Type :
eBook
Accession number :
802339