Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and FantasyCarl B. Yoke, Donald M. Hassler |
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... mortality and immortality . My book Comic Tones in Science Fiction ( Greenwood Press , 1982 ) centers to a great extent on a tonal answer to the problem of mortality . A glance at our table of contents here will indicate the wide sweep ...
... mortality and immortality . My book Comic Tones in Science Fiction ( Greenwood Press , 1982 ) centers to a great extent on a tonal answer to the problem of mortality . A glance at our table of contents here will indicate the wide sweep ...
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... mortality as Tolkien's and Warner's , it is not remarkable to discover two markedly distinctive attitudes towards elves and elfins . Tolkien's elves are idealized icons of human longing and of the griefs that are the inevitable ...
... mortality as Tolkien's and Warner's , it is not remarkable to discover two markedly distinctive attitudes towards elves and elfins . Tolkien's elves are idealized icons of human longing and of the griefs that are the inevitable ...
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... mortality with thoroughly human , Warneresque élan . Warner's elfins become attractive only when they adopt human poses , mortal longings , mundane heresies . The paradox here is that these opposites attract us at the very moments when ...
... mortality with thoroughly human , Warneresque élan . Warner's elfins become attractive only when they adopt human poses , mortal longings , mundane heresies . The paradox here is that these opposites attract us at the very moments when ...
Contents
Is There Life After Immortality? | 19 |
A Recent Idea | 39 |
The Elves of J R R Tolkien and Sylvia | 57 |
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