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Fiction and the Fantastic

Fiction and the Fantastic

Date de sortie : 2025-01-03
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Date de sortie : 2025-01-03
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Introducing Fiction and the Fantastic

Introducing Fiction and the Fantastic

Durée : 8:06
Marina Warner is joined by Anna Della Subin to introduce Fiction and the Fantastic, a new Close Readings series running through 2025. Marina describes the scope of the series, in which she will also be joined by Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis. Together, Anna Della and Marina discuss the ways the fiction of wonder and astonishment can challenge social conventions and open up new ways of living.
Marina Warner is a writer of history, fiction and criticism whose many books include Stranger Magic, Forms of Enchantment and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2015 and is a contributing editor at the LRB.
Anna Della Subin’s study of men who unwittingly became deities, Accidental Gods, was published in 2022. She has been writing for the LRB since 2014.
Id. d’épisode : 1000721182033
GUID : e6036ffe-50b8-4b13-98f9-b9bdcfb8d998
Date de publication : 3/1/2025 à 01:00:00

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Marina Warner, Anna Della Subin, Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis traverse the great parallel tradition of the literature of astonishment and wonder, dread and hope, from the 1001 Nights to Ursula K. Le Guin.
Marina Warner is a writer of history, fiction and criticism whose many books include Stranger Magic, Forms of Enchantment and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2015 and is a contributing editor at the LRB.
Texts include:
The Thousand and One Nights 
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
The Travels of Marco Polo
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
The stories of Franz Kafka
James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
and works by Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard and Ursula K. Le Guin

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