num_pages: 229
description: Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety of secondary sources in literature, women's studies, science fiction/fantasy scholarship, and comparative mythology.
language: English
title: Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women
titlecomplete: Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
genres: Science Fiction
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Praeger