In Defence of Fantasy: A Study of the Genre in English and American Literature since 1945 (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction) - Softcover

Swinfen, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367336855 ISBN 13: 9780367336851

Verlag: Routledge, 2021

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First published in 1984, Ann Swinfen presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive view of fantasy: what it is, what it tries to achieve, what fundamental differences distinguish it from mainstream realist fiction. She concentrates on the three decades from 1945, when a new generation of writers found that Tolkein had made fantasy 'respectable'.

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Ann Swinfen was born in Akron, Ohio, on 5th October 1937, and died on 4th August 2018, in Broughty Ferry, Scotland. Educated in America and England, she was awarded degrees from Oxford, London and Dundee universities. Married to a fellow student in 1960, she brought up five children, while working variously as a computer journalist, a part-time lecturer in English, and a member of the Council of the Open University. Altogether she published one non-fiction book, In Defence of Fantasy, and twenty-three hugely successful, and mostly historical, novels, set in the 14th, 16th and 17th centuries.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367336855
• ISBN 13: 9780367336851
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
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