Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women
By (Author) Thelma J.Y. Richard
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
16th October 1986
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
813.0876099287
Physical Properties
Hardback
229
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
454g
Description
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. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety of secondary sources in literature, women's studies, science fiction/fantasy scholarship, and comparative mythology.
Author Bio
THELMA J. SHINN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Arizona State University. She has published in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal, Literature and Psychology, and Modern Drama. She is the author of Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women (Greenwood, 1986) and Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women (Greenwood, 1986).
