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Author Rayment, Andrew.

Title Fantasy / Andrew Rayment.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Postmodern Studies ; 52
Postmodern studies ; 52.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part 1 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; Part 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)Bibliography; Index.
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.
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Subject Pratchett, Terry -- Criticism and interpretation.
Pratchett, Terry.
Criticism and interpretation.
Pullman, Philip, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Pullman, Philip, 1946-
Miéville, China -- Criticism and interpretation.
Miéville, China.
Fantasy fiction, English -- Political aspects.
Fantasy fiction, English.
Genre/Form Fantasy fiction, English.
Subject Fantasy fiction, English -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Politics and literature.
Politics and literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rayment, Andrew. Fantasy 9789042038585 (OCoLC)882073044
ISBN 9789401211000 (electronic book)
9401211000 (electronic book)
9042038586
9789042038585