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The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock

Critical Essays on the Fiction

Donald E Morse editor Donald E Palumbo editor Kálmán Matolcsy editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:8th Mar '11

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The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock cover

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 Wood sequence are explored, as is Holdstock's early science fiction and the Merlin Codex series.

“As a first step towards providing a serious critical study of the work of Robert Holdstock, we have to welcome this book”—SF Site.

ISBN: 9780786449422

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm

Weight: 286g

202 pages