Author:
Brawley, Chris.
Imprint:Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Descriptionix, 199 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:"Quieting the eye" : the perception of the eternal through the temporal in Coleridge's The rime of the ancient mariner -- The ideal and the shadow : George MacDonald's Phantastes -- "Further up and further in" : apocalypse and the new Narnia in C.S. Lewis's The last battle -- The fading of the world : Tolkien's ecology and loss in The lord of the rings -- Affirming the world that swerves : the alter-tales in Algernon Blackwood's The centaur and Ursula Le Guin's Buffalo gals and other animal presences -- "A daisy is nearer heaven than an airship" : the utopian vision in Algernon Blackwood's The centaur -- "Yes. You can keep your eye: : Ursula Le Guin's Buffalo gals and other animal presences -- The sacramental vision : perceiving the world anew.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.
Note:"This book makes connections between mythopoeic fantasy--works which engage the numinous--and the critical apparatuses of ecocriticism and posthumanism. Drawing from the ideas of Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy, mythopoeic fantasy is a means of subverting normative modes of perception to both encounter the numinous and to challenge the perceptions of the natural world"-- Provided by publisher.
