William Coyle
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Ohio authors and their books: Biographical data and selective bibliographies for Ohio authors, native and resident,… (1962) 6 exemplaires
Aspects of fantasy : selected essays from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film (1986) 5 exemplaires
Listen to your hands! : a method to develop a piano student's ability to identify patterns in the keyboard, and to… (2007) 1 exemplaire
Mark Twain as Fantasist {article} 1 exemplaire
The Poet and The President, Whitman's Lincoln Poems 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 15
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- 83
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- #218,811
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- 2.5
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- 1
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- 29
In this collection I came to realize that fantasy literature encompasses much more than my own narrow definition would have admitted. In this book alone, there are essays on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Meyrink's The Golem; Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Tolkein's Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; Shakespeare's Winter's Tale; Frank Herbert's Dune; Italo Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies; Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy; and Artaud's "theater of cruelty and the fantastic." There are several touching on fantasy in the cinema including Superman and his ilk, and even television's Fantasy Island. Other essays treat fantasy from more general perspectives.
Altogether, this collection yields up numerous insights into this area that make it very much worth reading if you are interested in looking at fantasy from an analytical point of view. Some pieces are better than others, and in some cases I believe it would have helped to have read the works under discussion. In other cases, the discussion is general enough that this does not matter.… (plus d'informations)