In the mirror of the past: of fantasy and history

These days we are ever more often confronted by overwhelming events.

Searching for a way to understand them we turn to mythic archetypes still present in our culture.

The authors of these essays (see inside) pose questions about the reliability of the archetypes found in tradition, history, and scattered mythologemes. - The essays in this collection deal with the presence of the mythic time in modern speculative fiction, such as fantasy and alternate histories, and discuss major mythologemes and their functions in popular literature and extra-literary reality.

The authors show how mythopoeic fiction becomes a (genetically) modified mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or just a reality superior to the ordinary one. - In the Mirror of the Past: of Fantasy and History is a collection of seven essays by American and Polish authors, including Brian Attebery, Terri Doughty, and Marek Oziewicz, with Mircea Eliade+ö+ç+ûs concept of +ö+ç-úreturn from history to History+ö+ç+ÿ as their underlying theme. - - -