Variations on the Fantasy Tradition by W.A.Senior?
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Variations on the Fantasy Tradition by W.A.Senior?
I just picked this up on Amazon, since I was meaning to do so for a while now. Looks interesting, mainly since it's something about Covenant, heh. Anyway, I havn't started yet, so I was just wondering if anyone here has read it yet. Looks like it even has some S.R.D. interviews in the back of the book. Pretty cool.-jay
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interesting. i'll have to find it.
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It's all right. Mainly descriptive. It basically discusses the Chronicles in comparison to general conventions of fantasy. Example: In fantasy, the hero is usually like this and functions in the narrative like this. In Covenant, the hero is like this. So, not too high-level, but definitely an "English major" book, which is not to say others with interest in its content wouldn't find it readable or interesting (or that all English majors would be interested in it <g>), it's just written in that English-majory style, which is kind of dense and dry. Amazon, I think, will show chapters, but some topics covered are heros in fantasy, narrative structure, nature of knowledge, myth in the Chronicles and fantasy, life and death (meaning of life, significance of death), and kind of an overview of the Second Chronicles. It does have two fairly lengthy interviews with Donaldson at the back as appendicies.
Sounds cool, Jay.