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Author:   Matthew Oliver ,  Donald E. Palumbo ,  C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781476687131

ISBN 10:   1476687137
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   24 June 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Building Worlds with Words in Epic Fantasy Section I: Syntactic Complexity Chapter 1. “The Riotous Conflagration of Beauteous Language”: Flowery Style, Defamiliarization, and Empathic Imagination Chapter 2. “A Necessary Subtraction”: Simplicity, the Violent Emotion of Editing, and the Editing of Violence Section II: Narrative Perspective Chapter 3. Third-Person Heroism: Authority, Omnipotent Narration, and the Distribution of Visibility Chapter 4. First-Person Epic Novels: Metafantasy and Fluid Perspective Section III: Wonder Chapter 5. Spoiler Alert: Twists, the Sense of Wonder, and Narrative Transcendence Chapter 6. The Mundane Fantastic: Stylistic Magic and Genre Collisions Section IV: Narrative Frames Chapter 7. Narrative Frames: Paratexts, Blurred Boundaries, and the Deconstruction of Essentialist Narrative Chapter 8. Frame Narratives: Historical Truth, Literal Metaphors, and Epic Irony Chapter Notes Works Cited Index

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[A] strong, well-written, and thoroughly researched book, and it addresses a topic of scholarly concern (i.e., epic fantasy) that has been woefully neglected in the secondary literature. --Dennis Wilson Wise, University of Arizona Matthew Oliver's Magic Words, Magic Worlds moves off the paved paths of fantasy scholarship based on rhetorics and definitions. Finally we have a rich and detailed consideration of style itself, which leads Oliver into perhaps the most overlooked yet engaging feature of the genre: affect. Scholars, just as much as lovers of the genre, will discover a 'gramarye' of fantasy here, with all the abundance that term affords. --James Gifford, professor of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University

"""Matthew Oliver's Magic Words, Magic Worlds moves off the paved paths of fantasy scholarship based on rhetorics and definitions. Finally we have a rich and detailed consideration of style itself, which leads Oliver into perhaps the most overlooked yet engaging feature of the genre: affect. Scholars, just as much as lovers of the genre, will discover a 'gramarye' of fantasy here, with all the abundance that term affords.""--James Gifford, professor of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University"

[A] strong, well-written, and thoroughly researched book, and it addresses a topic of scholarly concern (i.e., epic fantasy) that has been woefully neglected in the secondary literature. --Dennis Wilson Wise, University of Arizona

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Matthew Oliver is a professor of English at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky.

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