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Strategies of Fantasy

Contributor(s): Attebery, Brian (Author)

ISBN: 9780253310705

Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Pub Date: March 22, 1992

Dewey: 813.0876609

LCCN: 91015884

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.44" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 0.92 lbs) 180 pages

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Description: Attebery shows how plots, characters, settings, storytelling frameworks, gender divisions, and references to cultural texts such as history and science are all called into question the moment the marvelous is admited into a story.

Review Quotes:

"This is one of the most persuasive and well-reasoned accounts of how and why fantasy works and what its relationship is to canonical literature."--Gary K. Wolfe

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