Death and fantasy
Subtitle: essays on Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and R.L. Stevenson
By: by William Gray.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781847188717
Subjects: Pullman, Philip, -- 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation; Lewis, C. S. -- 1898-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation; MacDonald, George, -- 1824-1905 -- Criticism and interpretation; Stevenson, Robert Louis, -- 1850-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation; Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism; Children's stories, English -- History and criticism; Death in literature; Spirituality in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-121).
Table of contents: title: George MacDonald, Julia Kristeva and the Black sun; title: The angel in the house of death : gender and subjectivity in George MacDonald's Lilith; title: Strange case of Dr. MacDonald and Mr. Hyde : Robert Louis Stevenson and George MacDonald; title: The incomplete fairy tales of Robert Louis Stevenson; title: Death, myth and reality in C.S. Lewis; title: Spirituality and the pleasure of the text : C.S. Lewis and the act of reading; title: The lion, the witch and the Atlantean box : psychoanalysis and Narnia revisited; title: Pullman, Lewis, MacDonald and the anxiety of influence; title: Witches' time in Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald.