Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity is a book by Andrew Rayment about the Fantasy writers, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Mieville. The book is useful for students who are seriously studying the Fantasy genre (or related genres, such as Magic Realism or Science Fiction), or any of the three authors. Unfortunately it is an academic textbook, hence (as is usually the case) vastly more expensive than a fiction or popular-science book.
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| - Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity: Pratchett, Pullman, Mieville and Stories of the Eye
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| - Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity is a book by Andrew Rayment about the Fantasy writers, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Mieville. The book is useful for students who are seriously studying the Fantasy genre (or related genres, such as Magic Realism or Science Fiction), or any of the three authors. Unfortunately it is an academic textbook, hence (as is usually the case) vastly more expensive than a fiction or popular-science book.
- “The books are true while reality is lying…” Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity is a book by Andrew Rayment about the Fantasy writers, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Mieville. Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account of how the novels of these writers do and do not sustain pol
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| - “The books are true while reality is lying…” Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity is a book by Andrew Rayment about the Fantasy writers, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Mieville. Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account of how the novels of these writers do and do not sustain politically insightful critique of the real world, while bringing intellectual and ethical concerns to bear on the popular Fantasy form.
- Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity is a book by Andrew Rayment about the Fantasy writers, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Mieville. The book is useful for students who are seriously studying the Fantasy genre (or related genres, such as Magic Realism or Science Fiction), or any of the three authors. Unfortunately it is an academic textbook, hence (as is usually the case) vastly more expensive than a fiction or popular-science book.
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