Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction by Oliver, Matthew;

Sorozatcím: Perspectives on Fantasy;

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Kiadó Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Megjelenés dátuma 2026. március 19.

ISBN 9781350502215
Kötéstípus Keménykötés
Terjedelem272 oldal
Méret 234x156 mm
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Illusztrációk 10 bw illus

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Irodalomtörténet Irodalomelmélet Epika, elbeszélő irodalom Fantasy

Hosszú leírás:

Reframing debates surrounding long narratives to explore their impact, this book develops a critical vocabulary for discussing the formal, social, and political affordances of length and duration in fantasy novels, and by extension, other genres.

Beloved by fans, fantasy books frequently receive dismissive treatment from book reviewers and academics. For literary critics, lengthy narratives have long posed problems: for aesthetic critics, they are too sprawling and unstructured; for the politically engaged, they are suspect as part of a culture industry that commodifies texts. Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction switches up this discussion of long narratives, exploring their use of repetitions, narrative rhythms, and complexly ramifying structures to shape readers' perspectives on such concepts as historical causation, group inclusion, the conflict between traditional values and innovation, and human agency in relation to a complex social totality.

As the first book-length study of the length of fantasy novels, this book uses insights from aesthetic theory, phenomenology, and cognitive studies to ask both ""what does length do for fantasy narratives?"" and also ""how does fantasy length help us understand the function of extended duration in narrative?"" Calling upon readings from a diverse set of writers including J. R. R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, George R. R. Martin, N. K. Jemisin, Marlon James, Barbara Hambly, Steven Erikson, Samuel Delany and Katharine Kerr, Matthew Oliver illustrates the breadth of approaches structuring long fiction and the impact of strategies for managing length on a range of issues including race, gender, and social class. Finally, offering a critical vocabulary for the formal analysis of length and a set of tools for relating the duration of texts to their social and political consequences, this book presents a major intervention in criticism of the fantastic.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

List of Tables
Preface
Introduction-Reading (for) Length
Part 1: Strategies of Length
Chapter 1-The Politics of Length: Managing Sprawl with Narrative Rhythm
in Sanderson's Stormlight Archive
Chapter 2-Go with the Flow: Sprawling Ramification and Distraction
in Steven Erikson's Network Fantasy
Part 2: Interventions of Length
Chapter 3-""Partners in Making and Delight"": Fantasy Interventions in Labor
and Leisure
Chapter 4-The Same Thing Over and Over: How Serialized Sprawl Disrupts
Gender-Coded Temporality
Chapter 5-Alternative Branches: The Subjunctive, Impatience, and Transformation
in Delany and Jemisin
Notes
Works Cited