Nature and the numinous in mythopoeic fantasy literature /

"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 bo...

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Main Author: Brawley, Chris
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Series:Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 46.
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505 0 |a "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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