Fantasy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 July 2022
- ISBN 9780192856234
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 224x145x19 mm
- Weight 372 g
- Language English 647
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Short description:
Fantasy has become a dominant mode of storytelling and it mirrors our experiences and anxieties better than any representation of the merely real. This book poses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: how can it be meaningful if it doesn't claim to represent things as they are, and what kind of change can it make in the world?
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An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy.
One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the merely real. It is the lie that speaks truth. This book addresses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: first, how can it be meaningful if it doesn't claim to represent things as they are, and second, what kind of change can it make in the world? How can a form of storytelling that alters physical laws and denies facts about the past be at the same time a source of insight into human nature and the workings of the world? What kind of social, political, cultural, intellectual work does fantasy perform in the world--the world of the reader, that is, not that of the characters?
Focusing on various aspects of fantastic world-building and story creation in classic and contemporary fantasy, from the use of symbolic structures to the way new stories incorporate bits of significance from earlier texts, this book shows how fantasy allows writers such as Michael Cunningham, Hans Christian Anderson, Helene Wecker, C. S. Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin, Nnedi Okorafor, Nalo Hopkinson, George MacDonald, Aliette deBodard, and Patricia Wrightson to test new modes of understanding and interaction and thus to rethink political institutions, social practices, and models of reality.
Readable and authoritative, rich in example without losing us in abstract theory... For many-academics and general readers alike-the value of this volume will be in the way it places the fantasy we have grown up with in the context of a range of other voices.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Speaking of Fantasy
How Fantasy Means: The Shape of Truth
Realism and the Structures of Fantasy: The Family Story
Neighbors, Myths, and Fantasy
If not Conflict, then What? Metaphors for Narrative Interest
A Mitochondrial Theory of Literature: Fantasy and Intertextuality
Young Adult Dystopias and Yin Adult Utopias
Gender and Fantasy: Employing Fairy Tales
The Politics of Fantasy
Timor mortis conturbat me: Fear and Fantasy
Conclusion: How Fantasy Means and What It Does: Some Propositions
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