Farah Mendlesohn is a historian and critic. She has chaired the Science Fiction Foundation; served as the President of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, and been involved in both national and international convention running.
She is the author of several books about science fiction and fantasy literature and is best known for her book Rhetorics of Fantasy. She won the Hugo Award for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (edited with Edward James). Her most recent book, Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction (with Michael M Levy) won the World Fantasy Award in 2017 and the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies in 2018.
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18 Ebooks door Farah Mendlesohn
Farah Mendlesohn: On Joanna Russ
This critical anthology presents a multifaceted look at one of the most original and influential voices in both science fiction and feminism.Best known for her groundbreaking feminist sci-fi novel Th …
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Farah Mendlesohn: The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein began publishing in the 1940s at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction, and today he is considered one of the genre’s ‘big three’ alongside Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimo …
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Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James: Eine kurze Geschichte der Fantasy
Fantasy ist, obwohl Literaturkritiker wie Akademiker dies gerne ausblenden, das einfluss- und erfolgreichste Genre des 21. Jahrhunderts. Einige der frühsten Bücher unserer Kultur, darunter das Gilgam …
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Farah Mendlesohn: Diana Wynne Jones
British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and excitin …
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Farah Mendlesohn: Diana Wynne Jones
British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and excitin …
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Mendlesohn Farah Mendlesohn & Levy Michael M. Levy: Aliens in Popular Culture
An indispensable resource, this book provides wide coverage on aliens in fiction and popular culture.The wide impact that the imagined alien has had upon Western culture has not been surveyed before; …
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Farah Mendlesohn: Rhetorics of Fantasy
<P>Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examp …
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Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James: A Short History of Fantasy
Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an …
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Farah Mendlesohn: Creating Memory
This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction—primarily fiction for the young. The text argues that the English Civil Wa …
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Gerry Canavan & Sean Guynes: Uneven Futures
Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities devise new survival strategies for a toug …
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Farah Mendlesohn: Practicing Peace: Quaker Relief Work in the Spanish Civil War
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