Nature and the Numinous in Mythopoeic Fantasy Literature
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780786494651
Subjects: Mythology in literature; Holy, the; Fantasy fiction, history and criticism
Description: "This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works which engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world"--