Fantasy: How It Works - Attebery Brian

Oxford University Press 2022 Oxford University Press 208 Attebery, Brian (Professor of English, Idaho State University) Hardback

Fantasy has become a dominant mode of storytelling and it mirrors our experiences and anxieties better than any representation of the merely real. This book poses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: how can it be meaningful if it doesn't claim to represent things as they are, and what kind of change can it make in the world?