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This critical study analyzes Stephen R. Donaldson's role as a modern writer who uses the fantasy genre to discuss situations and predicaments germane to the modern world. Donaldson reclaims an epic vision in his Thomas Covenant novels that is lacking in most modern literature. Chapters demonstrate how this use of epic heroism helps solve seemingly insurmountable problems and provides more meaning and purpose for individuals. As Donaldson's characters learn to transcend their world, the reader is engaged in a serious, enlightened discussion about the need for imagination, responsibility and acceptance to resolve such problems as alienation, pollution, disease and despair.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ur-Lord of the (White Gold) Ring
Chapter 2: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Leper
Chapter 3: Remembrance of Some Things Past
Chapter 4: They Could Not Go Home Again
Chapter 5: Something Evil This Way Comes
Chapter 6: A Farewell to Armaments
Chapter 7: The Time "Machine": Speculations on Time and Space Travel in the "Last Chronicles"
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index