El. knyga: Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media

Mind opening. * Language and Ecology * The books profusion of subjects and clarity of language will make this book compelling reading for scholars of narrative genre while remaining accessible to undergraduate readers. * Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment * The urgings in Fantasy and Myth should be heeded. They may go far to help persuade people that we do not have to live in a dystopian world; that we cannot focus solely on end-of-the-world stories but on how can we work together to change the world stories * The Living Church * Generally speaking, so-called fantasy and mythic literature tend to be regarded as enjoyable and yet too unrealistic to enable us to grasp the causes of the real dangers threatening our complex civilized world. This assumption is misleading if not discouraging, for as the numerous essays by notable scholars and artists in Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene demonstrate, fantasy and myth play an important role in helping us deal with the doom and gloom of climate change. Moreover, they provide extraordinary counter narratives that can help us reshape the world. This collection of essays is a wonderful breath of fresh optimistic air and reveals how the anticipatory imagination in contemporary myths and fantasy can help us resist the current ecological dilemma in which we find ourselves. * Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, USA * [ This] collection deserves to be read by anyone interested in how non-realist genres have risen to the challenge of imagining other worlds in the shadow cast by human industrial civilization. * Science Fiction Research Association * Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene is an impressive and multifaceted book... [ The] scholarly essays are engaging explorations of how fantasy texts provide potentially useful ways of rethinking our relationship with the planet as we go forward, each one soundly based on a good bit of research and critical thinking about relevant and well-known texts. The creative pieces add voices that are not usually seen in an academic anthology, but they balance the scholarly pieces well and add weight to the editors argument that fantasy writers and illustrators can and do play an essential role in how we view the Anthropocene. * Martha Hixon *