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Informationen zum Autor Christine Barkley is a retired English professor at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. She lives in Escondido. Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina. C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies. Klappentext This critical study analyzes Stephen R. Donaldson's role as a modern writer who uses the fantasy genre to discuss situations and predicaments germane to the modern world. Donaldson reclaims an epic vision in his Thomas Covenant novels that is lacking in most modern literature. Chapters demonstrate how this use of epic heroism helps solve seemingly insurmountable problems and provides more meaning and purpose for individuals. As Donaldson's characters learn to transcend their world, the reader is engaged in a serious, enlightened discussion about the need for imagination, responsibility and acceptance to resolve such problems as alienation, pollution, disease and despair. Zusammenfassung Analyzes Donaldson's role as a modern writer who uses the fantasy genre to discuss situations and predicaments germane to the modern world. This book provides the reader with a discussion about the need for imagination! responsibility and acceptance to resolve such problems as alienation! pollution! disease and despair. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiiPreface Introduction Chapter 1: Ur-Lord of the (White Gold) Ring Chapter 2: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Leper Chapter 3: Remembrance of Some Things Past Chapter 4: They Could Not Go Home Again Chapter 5: Something Evil This Way Comes Chapter 6: A Farewell to Armaments Chapter 7: The Time "Machine": Speculations on Time and Space Travel in the "Last Chronicles" Chapter Notes Bibliography Index ...
