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This book deals with the eight major figures in the Arthurian legends and how they have been individually represented in literature from its beginnings up to the present day.

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Focusing on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", this study details, both in Twain's work and in its science fiction successors, the roles played by the traveller to the past - nostalgic, tourist, imperialist, Oedipal hero and existential isolate.

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The Dark Descent assembles fifteen illuminating original essays that consider King from a variety of intellectual orientations, addressing the major novels and central thematic concerns that represent King's contributions to American letters and elevating King scholarship to a new level of critical discourse.

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While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society marked by suffering caused by human and political evils. Later chapters consider dystopias after World War II, contemporary communist dystopias, and postmodernist dystopias in the West.

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Although better known today for such classic and influential science fiction novels as Last and First Men, Odd John, Star Maker and Sirius, Olaf Stapledon also wrote eight other science fiction books, seven volumes of philosophy and social criticism, and hundreds of reviews, lectures, and articles.

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During the first part of the nineteenth century, the Lost Worlds Romance, a new literary form, appeared in which an explorer, most often a scientist, made a voyage to what was then considered to be a remote part of the earth where he discovered a fantastic lost world.

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Presenting a clear, well-argued view of Vonnegut's work within the context of American literature and history, this study discusses all of Vonnegut's novels against the background of his other writing, events of the 20th century and the vast array of Vonnegut scholarship.

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One of the most prolific, honored, and widely read science fiction writers, Robert Silverberg has forged a professional career that began in the 1950s and has flourished in succeeding decades.

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Sheds new light on J.R.R. Tolkien's fictive mythology and gives scholars and lay readers an increased understanding of the scope and philosophical background of his major works.

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This timely addition to the critical literature on Tolkien sheds new light on the author's life and works.

Tolkien, one of the world's most beloved authors, was a World War I signaling officer who survived the Battle of the Somme, and two of his sons served during World War II.

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If, in the broadest of strokes, fantasy concerns a past Golden Age, and science fiction a future that started out rosy and has now attained myriad hues, then the mere existence of the genres implies time travel. Literature scholars go further however, to explore the further distortions and explanati

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Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content.