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Fantasy Littérature & Cinéma FANTASY LITTÉRATURE & CINÉMA MARGINALIA HORS SÉRIE NO 19: ÉTUDES GÉNÉRALES SUR LA FANTASY JANVIER 2011 Marginalia est publié 4 fois par an par NORBERT SPEHNER 565, rue de Provence, Longueuil, J4H 3R3 (Québec/Canada) [email protected] 1 La bibliographie qui suit est une compilation de base des principales études sur la fantasy, un genre qui flirte avec le merveilleux, le conte de fée, la science-fiction et le fantastique et qui s'est vraiment démarqué après l'immense succès des oeuvres de Tolkien, au point même de supplanter la science-fiction. Le mot n'ayant toujours pas d'équivalent valable en français, nous avons gardé le terme "fantasy" désignant des oeuvres d'imagination se déroulant dans des lieux imaginaires où la magie est fonctionnelle, où volent les dragons et rôdent les orcs, les elfes et autres entités de ces mondes fabuleux. Sauf recoupements inévitables, cette bibliographie ne recense pas les études sur le conte populaire, le conte de fée, le merveilleux, la littérature jeunesse et autres domaines connexes. Dans certains de ses ouvrages, notamment allemands et anglo-saxons, le mot est pris dans un sens très large, incluant les autres genres de l'imaginaire. Nous avons retenu les ouvrages où il était question des oeuvres d'au moins deux écrivains. Pour les études sur les auteurs individuels (Tolkien, Lord Dunsany, C. S. Lewis, Pullman, etc) , il y aura un autre hors série plus tard. Cette bibliographie comprend deux parties : la littérature & le cinéma Norbert Spehner Need to Know About Fantasy Books janvier 2011 and Movies, Eugene (OR), Harvest House Publishers, 2005, 297 pages. Award–winning journalist Richard Abanes clears away the confusion many readers LITTÉRATURE experience over fantasy books and films. He delves into the differences between various forms of fantasy and digs out ABANES, Richard, Fantasy and Your answers needed by every parent, youth Familiy : Exploring Lord of the Ring, worker, teacher, and student.The stories Harry Potter and Modern Magick, of Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling—and films Camp Hill (PA), Christian Publications, based on them—have touched millions of 2002, 300 pages. lives. How are these authors similar...and This volume looks at the life of fantasy different? Where do they fit into today’s writer J.R.R. Tolkien, the popularity of his ever–growing desire for the mystery and fantasy works, their content, and what magic fantasy provides? separates them from other fantasy volumes such as Harry Potter by J.K. ALEXANDER, Rob, Dessiner des paysa- Rowling and the children’s horror books by ges et des mondes de fantasy, Paris, R.L. Stine. A particularly interesting survey Eyrolle, (Trait pour trait), 2007, 127 of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings includes pages. a thorough analysis of its storyline, characters, and morality. These are ALLEN, Judy, L’Encyclopédie de la compared side-by-side with Harry Potter. fantasy, Paris, Rouge & or, 2006, 144 pages. Ed. or. : Fantasy Encyclopedia, ABANES, Richard, Harry Potter, Narnia, New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2005, 144 and The Lord of the Rings : What You pages. 2 The Fantasy Encyclopedia is a spectacular Story that Inspired the Legend. On the one-stop guide to the creatures and 2004 Rendering of the Arthurian Story and people of folklore and fantasy. From its Classroom Application - Ana Isabel goblins and fairies to dragons and Dracula, Expósito-Álvarez: Manuscript Illumination: this encyclopedia covers them all with A Visual Reworking of the Arthurian sparkling, readable text and stunning Legends. illustrations. Discover how the magic of stories throughout the centuries has kept APTER, T. E., Fantasy Literature: An these creatures alive in traditions and Approach to Reality, Bloomington, cultures around the world. Indiana University Press, 1982, 161 pages ANDERSON, Douglas, The 100 Best AQUINO, John, Fantasy in Literature, Writers of Fantasy and Horror : A Washington (DC), National Education Reader’s Guide to the Literary Lions of Association, 1977, 63 pages. Fantasy and Horror, Cold Spring Harbor (NY), Cold Spring Press, 2005, 146 pages. ARMITT, Lucie, Fantasy Fiction. An Introduction, London & New York, Conti- ANON. (The Editors of Writer’s Digest nuum, 2005, 256 pages. Books), The Writer’s Complete Fanta- Chapter 1-What is Fantasy Writing? sy Reference: An Indispensable Introduction - Beyond the Horizon - Epic Compendium of Myth and Magic, Space Cincinnati (Ohio), Writer’s Digest, 1998, Chapter 2-Fantasy as Timeline 277pages. Introduction by Terry Brooks. Introduction The Origins of Modern Fantasy ALPERS, Hans J., Lexikon der Fantasy- Early Modern Fantasy Literatur, Ekrath, Fantasy Productions, Tree versus Leaf: Reading the Present 2005, 508 pages. [Fantasy au sens très through the Past large d’imaginaire !] Phantasm versus Fantasia Chapter 3-How to Read Fantasy; Or, ALVARTZ-FAEDO (ed.), Avalon Revisi- Dreams and Their Fictional Readers ted : Reworkings of the Arthurian Introduction Myth, New York, et al., Peter Lang, 2007, Reading Dreams 270 pages. Medieval Dream Vision Contents: María José Álvarez-Faedo: The World in/of the Mirror Introduction - Jorge Abril-Sánchez: The Chapter 4-The Best and Best Known Medieval Orders of Knights and their Introduction Historical Exemplary Nature of the Play and Nonsense: Lewis Carroll and Arthurian Myth - Francisco J. Borge: A Edward Lear New Arthurian Hero Born to Fail? Elements Cartographies and Geographies of of the Arthurian Legend in Don Quixote - Fantasy: Animal Farm and Gulliver's Héctor Blanco-Uría: Merlin and Cunqueiro, Travels Close Family - María del Mar González- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Chacón: Tóraigheach Dhiarmada agus Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Discourses of Ghráinne (Pursuit of Diarmaid and Monstrosity Gráinne): Lady Gregory's (Re)Vision of the The Monsters of Middle Earth Arthurian Legend - Rubén Valdés-Miyares: Adolescent Monsters: Harry Potter Morgan's Queendom: The Other Arthurian H.G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon and Myth - María Isabel García-Martínez: Dux The Time Machine Femina Bellorum: War Also Agrees in the 'Other Desires': Homoeroticism and the Feminine - María José Álvarez-Faedo: Feminine Arthurian Reminiscences in Tolkien's Mothers and Mirrors: Harry Potter Trilogy: The Lord of the Rings - M. Chapter 5-The Utopia as an Underlying Gabriela García-Teruel: The Untold? True? Feature of All Major Modes of Fantasy 3 Introduction ATTEBERY, Brian, The Fantasy Thomas More, Utopia Tradition in American Literature: from Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels Irving to Le Guin, Bloomington, Indiana Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland University Press, 1980, 182 pages. H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon and The Time Machine ATTEBERY, Brian, The Strategies of Inter-Generic Texts: The Time Machine Fantasy, Bloomington, Indiana University and A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Press, 1992, 152 pages. Court Yann Martel, Life of Pi BACCHILEGA, Cristina, Postmodern George Orwell, Animal Farm Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Technology Versus Magic: A Connecticut Strategies, Philadelphia, University of Yankee and Harry Potter Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook [Angela Carter, R. Coover, D. Barthelme, William Gibson, Neuromancer Margaret Atwood, Tanith Lee] Chapter 6-One Key Question: Is There Life for Fantasy Beyond Genre? BAKER, Daria, Misfits in Fantasy Introduction Literature : Alternate Worlds and Ghosts and Their Readers Alternative Values, mémoire de maîtrse Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol /MA thesis, Hamline University, 1990, 152 Charles Dickens, 'The Signalman' pages. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw Edith Wharton, 'The Eyes' BARNES, Myra Edwards, Linguistics and Chapter 7-Fantasy Criticism Languages in Science Fiction and Introduction Fantasy, New York, Arno Press, 1974. Interrogating the Boundaries of Fantasy: [Lyon Sprague de Camp, Robert Graves, Todorov, Marin, and Tolkien C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jack Vance Determining Spaces: Tolkien, Bettelheim, are the fantasy authors which works are and Zipes considered] Fantasy as (Dream-)Screen: Psychoa- nalytic Approaches BARRON, Neil, Fantasy Literature: A New Bodies/New Knowledge: Massey, Reader’s Guide, New York, Garland Haraway, Botting Publishing, 1990, 586 pages. Chapter 8-A Glossary of Terms Chapter 9-Selected Reading List BARRON, Neil, Fantasy and Horror : A Critical and Historical Guide to ASABA, Sayako, The Voice of Longing : Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, radio A Study of Messages in Fantasy and the Internet, Lanham (MD), The Literature for Children, Master Scarecrow Press, 1999, 816 pages. Thesis/mémoire de maîtrise, Warwick University (UK), 1982. BARTH, M. E., Problems of Generic Classification : Toward a Definition of ASHLEY, Michael, Who’s Who in Horror Fantasy Fiction, doctorat/PhD, Purdue and Fantasy Fiction, London, Elm Tree University, 1981, 254 pages. Books, 1977, 240 pages. BARTLETT, Sally A., The Female Phan- ATTEBERY, Brian, America and the tasmagoria : Fantasy and Third Force Materials of Fantasy, thèse de Psychology in Four Feminist Fictions doctorat/PhD, Brown University, 1979, (Toni Morrison, Charlotte Perkins 339 pages. Gilman, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf), thèse de doctorat, University of South Florida, 2004, 164 pages. 4 BAUDOU, Jacques, La Fantasy, Paris, sans fin ou les Chroniques de Narnia ainsi Presses Universitaires de France, (Que que des auteurs exceptionnels parmi sais-je ?), 2005, 127 pages. lesquels Robin Hobb, Terry Pratchett, La fantasy, méconnue et décriée, occupe Terry Goodkind, Robert Holdstock, une place de plus en plus importante
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