Ellipse of Uncertainty : An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy Hardback
by Lance Olsen
Part of the Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy series
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This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively.
After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze works by various postmodernist fantasy writers.
Olsen's approach is eclectic, bringing to each text or textual complex those forces he feels most interestingly stir up its sediment--be they biographical, structural, psychoanalytic, philosophical, reader-response, or otherwise.
Finally he argues that postmodern fantasy is the literary equivalent of deconstructionism, for it interrogates all we take for granted about language and experience, giving these no more than shifting and provisional status.
It may be seen as a mode of radical skepticism that believes only in the possiblilty of total intelligibility.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:150 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:03/04/1987
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- ISBN:9780313255113
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:150 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:03/04/1987
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- ISBN:9780313255113
