The Blessing of Pan
The Blessing of Pan

Author: Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Lord

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0809530759

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"The Blessing of Pan portrays English rural life under a sign of paganism, after the fashion of writers like T.F. Powys." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

Pan
Pan

Author: Paul Robichaud

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2021-10-13

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1789144779

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From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of the mischievous—and culturally immortal—god Pan, now in paperback. Pan—he of the cloven hoof and lustful grin, beckoning through the trees. From classical myth to modern literature, film, and music, the god Pan has long fascinated and terrified the western imagination. “Panic” is the name given to the peculiar feeling we experience in his presence. Still, the ways in which Pan has been imagined have varied wildly—fitting for a god whose very name the ancients confused with the Greek word meaning “all.” Part-goat, part-man, Pan bridges the divide between the human and animal worlds. In exquisite prose, Paul Robichaud explores how Pan has been imagined in mythology, art, literature, music, spirituality, and popular culture through the centuries. At times, Pan is a dangerous, destabilizing force; sometimes, a source of fertility and renewal. His portrayals reveal shifting anxieties about our own animal impulses and our relationship to nature. Always the outsider, he has been the god of choice for gay writers, occult practitioners, and New Age mystics. And although ancient sources announced his death, he has lived on through the work of Arthur Machen, Gustav Mahler, Kenneth Grahame, D. H. Lawrence, and countless others. Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return traces his intoxicating dance.

Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany
Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany

Author: S. T. Joshi

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2013-08-22

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0810892359

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From the publication of his first book in 1905 until his death, Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) was an immensely popular Anglo-Irish writer. He has long been admired in the realms of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction and was a friend and colleague of writers W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Stephens, and Oliver St. John Gogarty. In recent years he has enjoyed a resurgence as a pioneering fantasy writer and an immense influence on later work in the genre. Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany is the first volume to assemble studies of Dunsany’s short fiction, novels, plays, and memoirs, as well as discussions of his influence on such writers as J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft. The book also contains early articles and reviews by Yeats, Lovecraft, H. L. Mencken, Rebecca West, and Arthur C. Clarke. Seven original essays by leading contemporary scholars on Dunsany examine the use of medieval archetypes in his fantasy novels; the distinctiveness of his recurring character, clubman Joseph Jorkens; the influence of Don Quixote on his first novel, The Chronicles of Rodriguez (1922); the treatment of religion in his later novels; and other subjects. This anthology presents a comprehensive snapshot of Dunsany’s distinctive work and his contribution to fantasy fiction and world literature. Making a case for the continued study of this neglected but hugely influential writer, Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany will be of great interest to enthusiasts of Dunsany’s work as well as students and scholars of fantasy, horror, the supernatural, and Irish literature.

Pan’S Script
Pan’S Script

Author: Elkie White

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2015-07-27

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1452529051

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Destiny may be written in the stars, but you have the power to shape it. In Pans Script, author Elkie White, offers a treasure trove of vital information about you, your loved ones, and your life, through astrology and numerology, combined. Pans Script guides you to the discovery of your Astro-Number Signature: the governing resonance of your entire energy-field. It paints a multidimensional personal portrait by showing you how to: enact the power and potential within your date of birth and your name apply your birthday number to make headway in life identify your true personality assess the forces shaping your life time your personal cycles appreciate the various types of intelligence, yours and others interpret your personal years within the context of the worlds year correlate numerology and astrology unite your numbers and your horoscope calculate and interpret your Astro-Number Signature explore the implications of your astronumerology for your career-path and relationships Based on careful research and the refinement of formulae from thousands of case studies, Pans Script teaches you about yourself as it reveals your Astronumerological DNA, because to know is to understand.

Fantasies of Time and Death
Fantasies of Time and Death

Author: Anna Vaninskaya

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-26

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1137518383

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This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy—Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien—to our culture’s perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots of the striking preoccupation with mortality and temporality that defines the imagined worlds of early fantasy fiction, and gives both the form of such fiction and its ideas the attention they deserve. Dunsany, Eddison and Tolkien raise some of the oldest questions in existence: about the limits of nature, human and divine; cosmic creation and destruction; the immortality conferred by art and memory; and the paradoxes and uncertainties generated by the universal experience of transience, the fear of annihilation and the desire for transcendence. But they respond to those questions by means of thought experiments that have no precedent in modern literary history. This book has won the '2021 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award' for Myth and Fantasy Studies.

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

Author: John Clute

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1999-03-15

Total Pages: 1110

ISBN-13: 9780312198695

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Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.

Pan Michael
Pan Michael

Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13:

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The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving Michael despairing of life—to the point of him joining a monastery. His friends, shocked at the loss of the great knight which has now left the Commonwealth unprotected, hatch a plan to bring him back to his true calling. As with many of the characters in the Trilogy, Michael is fictional but based heavily on historical record: his character’s exploits and circumstances owe a lot to the real Polish knight Jerzy Wołodyjowski, who was also in Jan Sobieski’s cavalry. Pan Michael was, like the other books in the Trilogy, initially serialized in Sienkiewicz’s newspaper Słowo, before being collected into a novel five years later in 1893. The book, and the Trilogy as a whole, was very well received, and allowed Sienkiewicz to resign his editorial post to focus on his novels. The novel was the first of the Trilogy to be filmed (as 1969’s Colonel Wolodyjowski), and it was also later converted into a successful television series in Poland. This edition is based on the 1893 translation by Jeremiah Curtin.