The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock: Critical Essays on the Fiction

Book Overview

Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078644942X
• ISBN13: 9780786449422
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher