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Fantastic worlds : myths, tales, and stories /

Covers fantastic narrative from ancient myths to modern science fiction in more than fifty tales which represent man's imagination in etiology, entertainment, and wonder.

Други автори: Rabkin, Eric S.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
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Съдържание:
  • Introduction
  • The sources of the fantastic
  • Genesis (KJV)
  • The Blackfoot Genesis / George Bird Grinnell, ed.
  • The eye of the giant / Ada Cardinall, ed.
  • How I brought death into the world / Amos Tutuola
  • The myth of Actaeon ; The myth of Narcissus ; The myth of Philomela / Ovid
  • The ghost wife / George Bird Grinnell, ed.
  • The magic swan geese / Alexandr Afanas'ev, ed.
  • Why tortoise's shell is not smooth / Chinua Achebe
  • How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris
  • Paul Bunyan on the Columbia / Esther Shephard
  • Little Red-cap ; The sleeping beauty ; Hansel and Grethel / Jakob Grimm ; Wilhelm Grimm
  • The tinderbox / Hans Christian Andersen
  • The tale of Cosmo / George MacDonald
  • Leaf by Niggle / J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The diversity of fantastic literature
  • Our ideas of time / Joseph Addison
  • Ritter Gluck / E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe
  • The garden of live flowers / Lewis Carroll
  • The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
  • The royal banquet / Norton Juster
  • The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe
  • The picture in the house / H.P. Lovecraft
  • The hand / Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
  • The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce
  • Lost hearts / M.R. James
  • Golden wings / William Morris
  • The sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany
  • The five black swans / Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe
  • The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The star / H.G. Wells
  • EPICAC / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • The third level / Jack Finney
  • The star / Arthur C. Clarke
  • The judgment ; A common confusion / Franz Kafka
  • Cockroaches / Bruno Schulz
  • Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges
  • Axolotl / Julio Cortazar
  • Pastoral / Tommaso Landolfi
  • All at one point / Italo Calvino
  • There is no such place as America / Peter Bichsel
  • The piano player / Donald Barthelme
  • Homage to the San Francisco YMCA / Richard Brautigan
  • The marker / Robert Coover
  • The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst.