The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock
Author | : Donald E. Morse |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780786485215 |
ISBN-13 | : 0786485213 |
Rating | : 4/5 (213 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock written by Donald E. Morse and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago Wood sequence are explored, as is Holdstock's early science fiction and the Merlin Codex series.