From Satire to Subversion: the Fantasies of James Branch Cabell
- List Price: $97.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (CT)
- Publish date: 07/01/1989
Description:
During the recent resurgence of interest in Cabell's work, literary scholars have given the fantasy aspect of his novels only cursory consideration, assigning them a place in the popular "high fantasy" tradition established by William Morris. Riemer shows us a different and more innovative writer who, though drawing on the medieval, mythological, and folk sources associated with high fantasy, wrote in a darker, satirical vein that is closer in spirit to some of our postmodern writers. Rather than expressing an idealized, heroic view of the past, Cabell's work exploits the tension between those ideals and reality.
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