Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature

by Chris Brawley

This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works that engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world. Beginning with S.T. Coleridge's theories of the imagination as embodied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786494654
• ISBN13: 9780786494651
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher