A fiction evoking wonder and containing a substantial and irreducible element of supernatural or impossible worlds, beings or objects with which the mortal characters in the story or the readers become on at least partly familiar terms.
His conclusion, however, is negative: each of the five major writers whose work he considered failed to sustain their original vision.[5]
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colin, manlove, colin, nicholas, manlove, 1942, falkirk, june, 2020, literary, critic, with, particular, interest, fantasy, modern, fantasy, five, studies, 1975, published, manlove, which, considers, length, works, charles, kingsley, george, macdonald, lewis, . Colin Nicholas Manlove 4 May 1942 in Falkirk 1 1 June 2020 2 3 was a literary critic with a particular interest in fantasy Modern Fantasy Five Studies 1975 published as by C N Manlove which considers at length works by Charles Kingsley George MacDonald C S Lewis J R R Tolkien and Mervyn Peake was written at a time when no serious study of the subject of fantasy literature has appeared 4 In it he posits a definition of fantasy as 2017 A fiction evoking wonder and containing a substantial and irreducible element of supernatural or impossible worlds beings or objects with which the mortal characters in the story or the readers become on at least partly familiar terms His conclusion however is negative each of the five major writers whose work he considered failed to sustain their original vision 5 He taught English Literature at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 until retiring as a reader in 1993 6 Criticism editModern Fantasy Five Studies 1975 Literature and Reality 1600 1800 1978 The Gap in Shakespeare The Motif of Division from Richard II to The Tempest 1981 The Impulse of Fantasy Literature 1983 Science Fiction Ten Explorations 1986 C S Lewis His Literary Achievement 1987 updated ed 2010 Critical Thinking A Guide to Interpreting Literary Texts 1989 Christian Fantasy From 1200 to the Present 1992 The Chronicles of Narnia The Patterning of a Fantastic World 1993 Twayne s Masterwork Studies 127 Scottish Fantasy Literature A Critical Survey 1994 The Fantasy Literature of England 1999 From Alice to Harry Potter Children s Fantasy in England 2003 The Order of Harry Potter Literary Skill in the Hogwarts Epic 2010 Scotland s Forgotten Treasure the Visionary Romances of George MacDonald 2016 George MacDonald s Children s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination 2019 Anthologies editAn Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature 1996 Notes edit Colin Manlove 1942 2020 Locus Online Retrieved 17 June 2020 Dr Colin Manlove Obituary Legacy com Retrieved 11 June 2020 Literary critic who pioneered the serious study of fantasy fiction www scotsman com Archived from the original on 19 June 2020 Retrieved 30 January 2021 Modern Fantasy Five Studies Preface p vii Modern Fantasy Five Studies p 258 Children s literature expert to speak at Sectus 2007 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Colin Manlove amp oldid 1147050635, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
