Title: Portals of power
Description: "This critical work explores the role of the portal in fantasy, investigating ways in which magical nexus points, and movement between worlds, are used to illustrate real-world power dynamics. Through an examination of high-low fantasy, fairy tales, literature, and science fiction, the portal is identified as an object (or person) of profound metaphorical and cultural significance"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: English Fantasy fiction, American Fantasy fiction, Magic in literature, Supernatural in literature, Change in literature, History and criticism, Agent (Philosophy) in literature, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, American fiction, history and criticism