About: Colin Manlove

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Colin Nicholas Manlove (4 May 1942 in Falkirk – 1 June 2020) was a literary critic with a particular interest in fantasy. Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (1975, published as by C. N. Manlove), which considers at length works by Charles Kingsley, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, was written at a time when "no serious study of the subject [of fantasy literature] has appeared". In it he posits a definition of fantasy as: His conclusion, however, is negative: each of the five major writers whose work he considered failed to sustain their original vision.

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  • Colin Nicholas Manlove (4 May 1942 in Falkirk – 1 June 2020) was a literary critic with a particular interest in fantasy. Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (1975, published as by C. N. Manlove), which considers at length works by Charles Kingsley, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, was written at a time when "no serious study of the subject [of fantasy literature] has appeared". In it he posits a definition of fantasy as: A fiction evoking wonder and containing a substantial and irreducible element of supernatural or impossible worlds, beings or objects with which the mortal characters in the story or the readers become on at least partly familiar terms. His conclusion, however, is negative: each of the five major writers whose work he considered failed to sustain their original vision. He was a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 until his retirement in 1993. (en)
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  • Colin Nicholas Manlove (4 May 1942 in Falkirk – 1 June 2020) was a literary critic with a particular interest in fantasy. Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (1975, published as by C. N. Manlove), which considers at length works by Charles Kingsley, George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, was written at a time when "no serious study of the subject [of fantasy literature] has appeared". In it he posits a definition of fantasy as: His conclusion, however, is negative: each of the five major writers whose work he considered failed to sustain their original vision. (en)
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  • Colin Manlove (en)
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