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Author | : Ina Batzke |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2018-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3839440270 |
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The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.
Author | : Ina Batzke |
Publisher | : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9783837640274 |
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"The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volumes offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings."--Back cover.
Author | : Anna Höglund |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021-05-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476680124 |
Download The Enduring Fantastic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.
Author | : Ekow Eshun |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0500777314 |
Download In the Black Fantastic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its own universe, In the Black Fantastic brings to life a cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday Black experience and beyond looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century. Transcending time, space and genre to span art, design, fashion architecture, film, literature and popular culture from African myth to future fantasies and beyond, this vital, timely and compelling publication is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent.
Author | : Darrell Schweitzer |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0809510723 |
Download Speaking of the Fantastic II Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Another selection of fascinating, informal conversations with the creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, presented exactly as originally published.Here are authentic voices from 1983 through 2002: Peter S. Beagle, Octavia Butler, Philip Jose Farmer, Charles L. Harness, Michael Kandel, R.A. Lafferty, Jack McDevitt Tim Powers, Charles Sheffield, Susan Shwartz, Michael Swanwick, Evangeline Walton, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, and George Zebrowski."
Author | : Michael Moorcock |
Publisher | : Millefleurs |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Download Exploring Fantasy Worlds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Scott Phillips |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2018-05-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1532375166 |
Download Quite Quite Fantastic! The Avengers for Modern Viewers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on the popular website, this exciting new volume examines the classic television programs, The Avengers and The New Avengers. Quite Quite Fantastic! provides insight into the behind-the-scenes production of both programs and their relevance to viewers today. Each episode is reviewed and analyzed, and the main characters and actors are profiled in depth. Plus, mini-biographies of dozens of guest actors, directors and writers are included. And the long-missing Season One is reconstructed with a special look at the newly recovered episode "Tunnel of Fear"!
Author | : Nikki Gamble |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2008-02-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1446242757 |
Download Exploring Children's Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is based on the belief that deep subject knowledge of language and literature provides a foundation for effective teaching and learning. It provides a comprehensive guide to the range of genres and characteristic features of English language fiction written for children. It will help readers to: o develop their understanding of literature within social, cultural and political reading practices o extend their knowledge of language features and conventions of different genres o develop skills in analytical and critical reading. The scope of the first edition has been expanded from solely fiction to cover a range of contemporary literature, including poetry, plays and picture books. The case study material, investigative activities and practical exercises promote an active approach to learning. The second edition focuses on a range of fiction relevant to the National Curriculum for England and the National Literacy Strategy. It provides examples from a range of world literature written in English. Examples from work in translation are also included. It also addresses the requirements of the primary curriculum for ITT English. This book is essential reading for student teachers on PGCE, and undergraduate teacher education courses, and for teachers undertaking CPD in English, literacy or children's literature. It provides useful support material for language coordinators, SCITT coordinators and literacy consultants.
Author | : Sandor Klapcsik |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786488433 |
Download Liminality in Fantastic Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This critical work diversifies Victor Turner's concept of liminality, a basic category of postmodernism, in which distinct categories and hierarchies are questioned and limits erode. Liminality involves an oscillation between cultural institutions, genre conventions, narrative perspectives, and thematic binary oppositions. Grounded on this notion, the text investigates the liminality in Agatha Christie's detective fiction, Neil Gaiman's fantasy stories, and Stanislaw Lem's and Philip K. Dick's science fiction. Through an examination of destabilized norms, this analysis demonstrates that liminality is a key element in the changing trends of fantastic texts.
Author | : Carole M. Cusack |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1476636400 |
Download The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
To the casual observer, similarities between fan communities and religious believers are difficult to find. Religion is traditional, institutional, and serious; whereas fandom is contemporary, individualistic, and fun. Can the robes of nuns and priests be compared to cosplay outfits of Jedi Knights and anime characters? Can travelling to fan conventions be understood as pilgrimages to the shrines of saints? These new essays investigate fan activities connected to books, film, and online games, such as Harry Potter-themed weddings, using The Hobbit as a sacred text, and taking on heroic roles in World of Warcraft. Young Muslim women cosplayers are brought into conversation with Chaos magicians who use pop culture tropes and characters. A range of canonical texts, such as Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sherlock--are examined in terms of the pleasure and enchantment of repeated viewing. Popular culture is revealed to be a fertile source of religious and spiritual creativity in the contemporary world.