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Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

Brawley, Chris
Palumbo, Donald E.
Sullivan, C. W., III

Paperback

Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Book 46

Literary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0786494654
ISBN13: 9780786494651
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 14 2014
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that 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 both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world. Beginning with S.T. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the book moves on to explore standard mythopoeic fantasists such as George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Taking a step outside these men, particularly influenced by Christianity, the concluding chapters discuss Algernon Blackwood and Ursula Le Guin, whose works evoke the numinous without a specifically Christian worldview.

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