Stephen J Benson

Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory

Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction

Understanding The Times: A Crisis of Decision for The Terminal Generation

Understanding The Times is a reference book of more than 150 provocative revealing YouTube videos produced by internationally acclaimed researchers, scientists, theologians, economists, government and military officials; for presentation at conferences and seminars, and to church groups and professi...

Creative Criticism: An Anthology and Guide

Including pieces by creative critics as varied as Anne Carson, Jacques Derrida, Geoff Dyer, Hélène Cixous, Ali Smith, and John Cage, this anthology and guide celebrates the formal and intellectual inventiveness of works which also demonstrate a deep fidelity to the writing or art they address. The A...

Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory

In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, Stephen Benson proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. Postmodernist fictions have evidenced a return to narrative-to storytelling centered on a sequence of events, rather than a "spiraling" of events as...

Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale (Marvels & Tales Special Issues)

Angela Carter (1940-1992) is widely known for her literary fairy tales, particularly those appearing in The Bloody Chamber. Her stylishly creative appropriation and adaptation of fairy-tale patterns, motifs, and content are evident not only her individual tales written for adults but throughout her ...

Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)

Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of interest in the fairy tale, not least among writers of fiction. In Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale, editor Stephen Benson argues that fairy tales are one of the key influences on fiction of the past thirty years and also continue to shape litera...

The Noontide Sun: The Field Journals of the Reverend Stephen Bowers, Pioneer California Archaeologist (Formerly Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No. 44)

The Field Journals of the Reverend Stephen Bowers, Pioneer California Archaeologist