The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
10 best books like The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature (Edward James): The Cat's Table, Systematic Theology, Vol 1, A Short History of Fantasy, Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth, Patterns in Comparative Religion, Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction, How To Read a Film: Technology: Image & Sound: Enhanced and Expanded, The Nature of Narrative, Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media..., Christian Origins: A People's History Of Christianity, Vol. 1
| 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....
| 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 | Farah Mendlesohn |
| ISBN | 1904750680 |
A history of the fantasy form, this work traces the genre from the earliest years with The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey through to the origins of modern fantasy in the 20th century with such acclaimed writers as Terry Pratchett and J. K. Rowling. An exploration of the great variety of fiction published...
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...
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...
| Author | Farah Mendlesohn |
| ISBN | 0819568686 |
Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct...
| Author | Brian Attebery |
| ISBN | 0253310709 |
Brian Attebery's "strategy of fantasy" include not only the writer's strategies for inventing believable impossibiltes, but also the reader's strategies for enjoying, challenging, and conspiring with the text. Drawing on a number of current literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon),...
Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0007105045 |
Tree and Leaf, J.R.R. Tolkien
Repackaged to feature Tolkien's own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, 'On Fairy-Stories' and the story that exemplifies this, 'Leaf by Niggle'. Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will...
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion
| Author | Rosemary Jackson |
| ISBN | 0415025621 |
This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973). Dr Jackson,...
Saraswati (Amar Chitra Katha)
| Author | Sanjana Kapur |
| ISBN | 9350851202 |
About the Book: Saraswati As Brahma sinks into peaceful bliss, his radiance gives birthtoa sublime form. Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, emergesfromBrahmas mind and enlightens the mighty creator. When the all-consuming fire, Vadavagni, is raging throughtheworld the gods go to Saraswati for...
| Author | Anant Pai |
| ISBN | 8175081082 |
Shakuntala was the daughter of a nymph and a sage who abandoned her in the woods. Sage Kanva brought her up. King Dushyanta on a visit to the hermitage was struck with Shakuntala's beauty and they got married in a non-traditional ceremony. The king eventually returned back, leaving with Shakuntala a...
| Author | Anant Pai |
| ISBN | 8175082674 |
Savitri was the beautiful and learned daughter of a king. When she came of age, many princes sought her hand in marriage but the king did not approve of any of them. Then she started on her own in search of a husband. Her choice fell on Satyavan, son of an exiled king. It was then foretold that Satyavan had only...
