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Burger sets out to examine the social and historical contexts of these influential stories [The Wood Beyond the World, The Lord of the Rings, The Mists of Avalon] in keeping with his conviction that all stories are the products of their historical/political/cultural moments; in order to accomplish this goal, he first very usefully provides such a context for fantasy itself, situating its roots in the medieval romance form and tracing the development. . . a genre history and a methodology of reading which suggest fruitful approaches to the heterogeneous range of contemporary fantasy, as well as a convincing argument for its continuing relevance as cultural production. . . . Burger successfully undertakes a revisionary examination of modern fantasy that demonstrates its ongoing political and social relevance even (or especially) in the face of contemporary Western cultures technological and instrumental modes of being-in-the-world. from the preface by Veronica Hollinger
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