Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women

By Thelma J. Shinn and Thelma J.Y. Richard

Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety of secondary sources in literature, women's studies, science fiction/fantasy scholarship, and comparative mythology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313251010
• ISBN13: 9780313251016
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"