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Fantastic literature
Fantastic literature a critical reader
David Sandner
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
ISBN: 0313051968   DDC: 809.915   LCC: PN56   Edition: (electronic bk.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Phaedrus (388-366 B.C.) / Plato -- The poetics (c. 334-323 B.C.) /
Aristotle -- An apology for poetry (1595) / Philip Sidney -- "The
fairy way of writing" (1712) / Joseph Addison -- Letters on chivalry
and romance (1762) / Richard Hurd -- On the pleasure derived from
objects of terror (1773) / Anna Laetitia Aikin (later Barbauld) --
Letter (1797) and Biographia literaria (1817) / Samuel Taylor
Coleridge -- On the supernatural in poetry (1826) / Ann Radcliffe --
On the supernatural in fictitious composition (1827) / Walter Scott
-- Frauds on the fairies (1853) / Charles Dickens -- Fairy stories
(1868) / John Ruskin -- The fantastic imagination (1890) / George
MacDonald -- Fairy tales (1908) / G.K. Chesterton -- The uncanny
(1919) / Sigmund Freud -- Introduction to Supernatural horror in
literature (1927) / H.P. Lovecraft -- Critics (1956) / Damon Knight
-- The mythos of summer: romance (1957) / Northrop Frye --
Characteristics of genre and plot composition in Dostoevsky's works
(1963) / Mikhail Bakhti

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Dewey Class: 809.915 -- Literary history & criticism
LCC Number: PN56

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Language: eng
Physical Description: xii, 357 p. cm.
Edition Info: (electronic bk.)

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