Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes
How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
“The scope of Douglas E. Cowan’s examples is astonishing—no stone went unturned in this collection of tales. The perennial love of fairy tales and the ubiquitous grasp that Disney has on the imagination of students is balanced nicely with the more hard-core gaming and role playing. There is something here for everyone.”—Cathy Gutierrez, author of Plato's Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance“Cowan manages to take stories that are at the extreme end of familiarity—fairy tales that we all know from childhood, and which have been made into movies countless times—and make them come alive in ways that are genuinely fresh and insightful,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-29399-1
- EAN: 9780520293991
- Produktnummer: 28950328
- Verlag: University Of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 336 g
- Abbildungen: 10 b-w photos
- Gewicht: 336
Über den Autor
Douglas E. Cowan is Professor of Religious Studies and Social Development Studies at Renison University College. He is the author of Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen, Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television, and, most recently, America’s Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King.
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