EAN: 9781009429948

AN INTRODUCTION TO FANTASY - MATTHEW SANGSTER T...

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.

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