A Short History of Fantasy
10 best books like A Short History of Fantasy (Farah Mendlesohn): In an Absent Dream, The Invention of Morel, Wicked Fox, Famous Men Who Never Lived, Last Night I Sang to the Monster, Perrault's Fairy Tales, Cinnamon, The Cat's Table, Broken Bones, Systematic Theology, Vol 1
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.
When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles...
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 1590170571 |
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...
| Author | Kat Cho |
| ISBN | 1984812343 |
A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul.
Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret--she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no one will miss, the modern...
Famous Men Who Never Lived
| Author | K Chess |
| ISBN | 1947793241 |
Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology...
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
| Author | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
| ISBN | 1933693584 |
Zach is eighteen. He is bright and articulate. He's also an alcoholic and in rehab instead of high school, but he doesn't remember how he got there. He's not sure he wants to remember. Something bad must have happened. Something really, really bad. Remembering sucks and being alive - well, what's up with...
| Author | Charles Perrault |
| ISBN | 0486223116 |
Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passé by the great Charles Perrault (1628–1703) in a translation that retains the charming and unsentimental simplicity that has won Perrault a permanent position in French literature. These were among the earliest versions...
Cinnamon was a princess, a long time ago, in a small hot country, where everything was very old. Cinnamon did not talk. Mango trees, a parrot, and a beautiful room in the palace do nothing to help the teachers who try to make her to speak. Can a man-eating tiger do so, and exactly who will end up in the belly...
| Author | Michael Ondaatje |
| ISBN | 0224093614 |
A spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England....
They thought they were safe. They were wrong.
The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investigation for Detective Kim Stone – one which brings her face to face with someone from her own horrific childhood.
As...
| Author | Paul Tillich |
| ISBN | 0226803376 |
This is the 1st part of Paul Tillich's 3-volume Systematic Theology, one of the most profound statements of the Christian message ever composed & the summation & definitive presentation of the theology of the most influential & creative American theologian of the 20th century. This...
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 3458326340 |
I read this rather (no very) creepy tale years ago, and while I truly enjoyed and above all appreciated E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, I also do not much feel like a detailed and intense rereading at this time, as the plot, the thematics actually repeatedly produced some rather vivid and glaring nightmares...
| Author | Camilo Castelo Branco |
| ISBN | 9720042133 |
Uma das novelas mais célebres de Camilo Castelo Branco (publicada em 1866, no Porto) constitui uma notável caricatura da vida política nacional, mas também uma parábola humorística acerca do desvirtuamento do Portugal antigo.
O protagonista, Calisto Elói, um fidalgo transmontano,...
| Author | Edward James |
| ISBN | 0521728738 |
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has...
| Author | Edward James |
| ISBN | 0521016576 |
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look...
| Author | Tzvetan Todorov |
| ISBN | 0801491460 |
In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, moving back and forth between a poetics of the fantastic itself and a metapoetics or theory of theorizing, even as he suggest that one must, as a critic, move back and forth between theory and history, between...
Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth
| Author | Brian Attebery |
| ISBN | 0199316074 |
Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been inextricably intertwined. Stories about Stories examines fantasy as an arena in which different ways of understanding myth compete and new relationships with...
Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature
| Author | Kathryn Hume |
| ISBN | 0416380204 |
Since Plato and Aristotle's declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Thus marginalized, fantasy - the deliberate departure from reality - has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor...
| Author | Milton Hatoum |
| ISBN | 1847673007 |
A magical retelling of the myth of Eldorado, the Enchanted City of the Amazon, by one of Brazil's most acclaimed writersThe setting for this magical fable is Eldorado, the enchanted city that inhabited the fevered dreams of European navigators and conquistadors, but eluded all attempts to find it...
«El adulterio es un asunto grave para el marido; los demás lo consideran un fracaso que no exige sangrientos excesos.»
El próspero Godofredo da Conceição Alves, regresa a su casa un 9 de julio con la idea de sorprender a su esposa con un regalo que ha de conmemorar su cuarto aniversario...
Patterns in Comparative Religion
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| ISBN | 0803267339 |
In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena—the element of...
Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction
| Author | Robert Scholes |
| ISBN | 0300018509 |
From time to time a current of thought sweeps through a culture and moves its most disparate elements in the same direction. Such a current is structuralism. Reacting against "modernist" alienation and fragmentation, it is an integrative and holistic way of looking at the world; it seeks reality not...
How To Read a Film: Technology: Image & Sound: Enhanced and Expanded
This is section 2 of How To Read a Film, enhanced and expanded.
Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco's ability to collect "an enormous amount of useful information and...
| Author | Robert Scholes |
| ISBN | 0195151755 |
For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling...
Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...
| Author | John Stossel |
| ISBN | 0060529156 |
Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then...
Christian Origins: A People's History Of Christianity, Vol. 1
Dealing with a time when "Christians" were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of Christianity tells "the people's story" by gathering together evidence from the New Testament texts, archaeology, and other contemporary sources....
Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies
| Author | Bill Nichols |
| ISBN | 0393934918 |
I gave 4 stars because of all the films and their significance that the author reveals. I now have a huge list of to-watch films. I also feel more equipped to appreciate and analyze cinema at a higher level.
However, the book is really for an introductory undergraduate freshman class, which assumes...
Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth
| Author | Alan Dundes |
| ISBN | 0520051920 |
Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume brings together classics statements on the theory of myth by authors such as William Bascom, Jan de Vries, G. S. Kirk, James G. Frazer, Theodor H. Gaster, Mircea Eliade,...
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the...
Deníček moderního páru aneb ženy jsou z Venuše a muži jsou debil
Kdo by neznal eskapády „moderního fotra“, které Dominik Landsman zachytil ve svých úspěšných Deníčcích? Nová kniha, kterou napsal společně s blogerkou a spisovatelkou Zuzanou Hubeňákovou, se pouští na stejnou půdu, ale zpátky do doby, kdy ještě nebyl otcem. Jindřich...
