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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Attebery, Brian, 1951- Fantasy tradition in American literature. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1980 (OCoLC)567794331 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Brian Attebery |
| ISBN: | 0253356652 9780253356659 |
| OCLC Number: | 6304296 |
| Description: | viii, 212 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- ch. 1. Locating fantasy -- ch. 2. Fantasy and the folk tradition -- ch. 3. Belief, legend, and romance -- ch. 4. Fantasy for American children -- ch. 5. Oz -- ch. 6. Fantasy and escape -- ch. 7. The Baum tradition -- ch. 8. After Tolkien. |
| Responsibility: | Brian Attebery. |
Abstract:
Includes chapters on L. Frank Baum and Ursula Le Guin, with material on Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Branch Cabell, H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Edward Eager, and James Thurber, among others.
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