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Fantasy, politics, postmodernity : Pratchett, Pullman, Miéville and stories of the eye / Andrew Rayment.

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Fantasy, politics, postmodernity : Pratchett, Pullman, Miéville and stories of the eye / Andrew Rayment.
Author
Rayment, Andrew
Publication
  • Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2014.
  • ©2014

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276 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"The books are true while reality is lying..." Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account.
Series Statement
Postmodern studies ; 52
Uniform Title
Postmodern studies ; 52.
Subject
  • Pratchett, Terry > Criticism and interpretation
  • Pullman, Philip, 1946- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Miéville, China > Criticism and interpretation
  • 1900-1999
  • Fantasy fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Fantasy fiction, English > 20th century > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Politics Of (In)Sight -- Introduction -- Fantasy Sight: `Real Being' -- One.Metaphor and Domain Maps: Parallax Sight -- Two.From Mind to Real: Ontological Sight -- Three.Theory, Fantastic Beings, Space: `Purificational' Sight -- Four.Seeing Visions: Experimental Sight -- Five.Dwarfs, Hermaphrodites, Lovers: Fantastic Sex -- pt. II The Politics Of Blindness -- Six.A Plague of Punctum: Postmodern Excess -- Punctum 1 Words -- Punctum 2 Narratives -- Punctum 3 Images -- Punctum 4 Theory -- CONCLUSION -- "What It Seems It Is..." (Is a World of Seeming).
ISBN
  • 9789042038585 (pbk.)
  • 9042038586 (pbk.)
  • 9789401211000 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 881441083
  • SCSB-10633497
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Harvard Library