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Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination
Author(s): Richard Mathews (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29 Jan. 2016
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 248 pages
- ISBN-10: 1138139653
- ISBN-13: 9781138139657
Book Description
Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.
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About the Author
Richard Mathews is a poet and professor of English at the University of Tampa. Widely published, he is the author of Aldiss Unbound, The Clockwork Universe of AnthonyBurgess, Worlds Beyond the World, Lightening from a ClearSky and Subtropical Speculations.
