Magic, monsters, and make-believe heroes : how myth and religion shape fantasy culture /
Through an exploration of fantasy culture, this book asks why we are so eager to invest in storyworlds that, on the surface, can't possibly be true. And, more than that, why we continue to tell the same fantastic stories over and over again. To say, "Well, Hollywood has run out of good ide...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Here be dragons
- Once upon a time ...
- Imagining magic
- Between Puer Aeternus and Vitam Aeternam
- The mythic hero: East
- The mythic hero: West
- Imagining the warrior-heroine
- The stuff of legends
- ... happily ever after?