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Informationen zum Autor Donald E. Morse is a professor at the University of Debrecen, in Hungary, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Oakland in Michigan. He is the author of a dozen books and over 100 scholarly articles. Kalman Matolcsy is a translator, poet, composer, and a professor at the University of Debrecen. He has written numerous scholarly articles on the literature of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina. Klappentext Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock's varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago Wood sequence are explored, as is Holdstock's early science fiction and the Merlin Codex series. Zusammenfassung These twelve critical essays explore the varied output of Robert Holdstock by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales! dissecting their spaciotemporal order! and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword: Under the Spell of a MagicianBRIAN W. ALDISS Introduction: Mythago Wood-"A Source of Visions and Adventure"DONALD E. MORSE Part One: Approaches1. The Embodiment of Abstraction in the Mythago NovelsW. A. SENIOR 2. Masks in the Forest: The Dynamics of Surface and Depth in the Mythago CycleKÁLMÁN MATOLCSY 3. Exploring the Habitats of Myths: The Spatiotemporal Structure of Ryhope WoodSTEFAN EKMAN Part Two: The Novels4. Time Winds: Early Science FictionANDY SAWYER 5. Profusion Sublime and the Fantastic: Mythago WoodMAREK OZIEWICZ 6. Tallis, the Feminine Presence in Mythago Wood: Lavondyss: Journey to an Unknown RegionELIZABETH A. WHITTINGHAM 7. Embedded Narratives in Lavondyss and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of DarknessVERA BENCZIK 8. Stories to Illuminate Truth and Lies to Hide Pain: Gate of Ivory, Gate of HornDONALD E. MORSE 9. "A Heap of Broken Images"-The Mythological Wasteland of the Mind: The Hollowing and Ancient EchoesILDIKÓ LIMPÁR 10. "So many names in so many tongues...": Allusive Mythology in CeltikaC. W. SULLIVAN III 11. Thresholds, Polders, and Crosshatches in the Merlin CodexTOM SHIPPEY Robert Holdstock Bibliography About the Contributors Index ...
