Descrição
Resumo:Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, this book introduces a provocative system of classification for the genre. Utilising nearly 200 examples of modern fantasy, it uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds.
Descrição Física:xxv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.
ISBN:9780819568670
0819568678
9780819568687
0819568686
Notas de Autor:FARAH MENDLESOHN teaches at Middlesex University, London. She was editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction for six years, and is the author of Diana Wynne Jones and the Children's Fantastical Tradition (2005) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2006), winner of a Hugo Award. She is the program director for the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal in 2009.