Popular culture comes to academe in this new collection of essays about the books, films, television shows, and music that are the subjects of today's most exciting discipline - the study of fantasy. In their explorations of the genre, thirteen noted authors and critics present a toolkit of analytical and aesthetic approaches to works by J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Hans Christian Andersen, China Mieville, Simon Green, J.K. Rowling, and others.
Popular culture comes to academe in this new collection of essays about the books, films, television shows, and music that are the subjects of today's most exciting discipline - the study of fantasy. In their explorations of the genre, thirteen noted authors and critics present a toolkit of analytical and aesthetic approaches to works by J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Hans Christian Andersen, China Mieville, Simon Green, J.K. Rowling, and others.