Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women

by Thelma J.Y. Richard

Overview

Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety of secondary sources in literature, women's studies, science fiction/fantasy scholarship, and comparative mythology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313251016
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/16/1986
Series:	Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy , #22
Pages:	229
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)