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An Introduction to Fantasy

By Matthew Sangster

An Introduction to Fantasy Contemporary literature

An Introduction to Fantasy

By Matthew Sangster

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Providing an engaging and accessible introduction to the Fantasy genre in literature, media and culture, this incisive volume explores why Fantasy matters in the context of its unique affordances, its disparate pasts and its extraordinary current flourishing. It pays especial attention to Fantasy's engagements with histories and traditions, its manifestations across media and its dynamic communities. Matthew Sangster covers works ancient and modern; well-known and obscure; and ranging in scale from brief poems and stories to sprawling transmedia franchises. Chapters explore the roles Fantasy plays in negotiating the beliefs we live by; the iterative processes through which fantasies build, develop and question; the root traditions that inform and underpin modern Fantasy; how Fantasy interrogates the preconceptions of realism and Enlightenment totalisations; the practices, politics and aesthetics of world-building; and the importance of Fantasy communities for maintaining the field as a diverse and ever-changing commons.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
469
Release Date:
2023-09-07
Publication Date:
2023-09-07
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009429949
ISBN13:
9781009429948
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
654 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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