Dragons of Fantasy
Subtitle: Scaly Villains and Heroes in Modern Fantasy Literautre (Cold Spring Press Fantasy)
Publisher: Cold Spring Press
Published: May 18, 2004
Place of publication: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781593600105
Subjects: Monsters & legendary beings; Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Literary Criticism & Collections / Science Fiction
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : Foreground.; title: Creating dragons : the writer's craft; title: J.R.R. Tolkien : a treacherous twosome; title: Anne McCaffrey : the Pern phenomenon; title: Terry Pratchett : funny side up; title: Ursula K. Le Guin : wild spirits of Earthsea; title: Jane Yolen : poetry and pit dragons; title: Terry Goodkind : graphic and gripping; title: J.K. Rowling : fantastic tastes of the wizarding world; title: Part two : Background.; title: Dragonology 101 : ancient Near East to classical era; title: Dragonology 102 : Middle Ages to modern times; title: The dragon hunter's toolbox