Fantastic Odysseys: Selected Essays from the Twenty-Second International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

by Hammed Shahidian and Mary Pharr

Although the odyssey has long been recognized as a crucial characteristic of the epic, scant attention has been paid to it as a telling device within other forms of the fantastic. Fantastic Odysseys supports the long-held awareness of the odyssey metaphor as an integral function within literary discourse, one that demonstrates a continuum of essential change in human cultural experience. By shifting the focus of that awareness from the epic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323240
• ISBN13: 9780313323249
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"