Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and StoriesEric S. Rabkin Oxford University Press, 1979 M06 7 - 496 páginas As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy. |
Contenido
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FOLKTALE | 80 |
FAIRY TALE | 96 |
THE DIVERSITY OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE | 161 |
FANTASY | 175 |
HORROR FICTION | 214 |
GHOST STORIES | 266 |
HEROIC FANTASY | 294 |
SCIENCE FICTION | 333 |
MODERN FANTASY | 393 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 463 |
Index | 475 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 41 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep ; and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
Página 46 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree -of life, and eat, and live for ever : therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Página 42 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Página 42 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 46 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life...
Página 46 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Página 45 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Página 44 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Página 44 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Página 41 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which' were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.