The progress of esoteric fiction in relation to fantasy literature
Approximately around the end of World War 2, a new subgenre of narrative fiction emerged in world literature, championed by English speaking writers: fantasy literature. It is J.R.R. Tolkien's works, especially The Lord of the Rings (written between 1937 and 49, first published in 1954), and it...
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SZTE IEAS
Szeged
2024
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| Sorozat: | Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila József nominatae : papers in english and american studies
28 Papers in English and American studies : Tomus XXVIII. - New Horizons in English and American Studies: Papers from the Doctoral Program 28 |
| Kulcsszavak: | Angol irodalom története - 20-21. sz., Fantasztikum - irodalmi - 20-21. sz., Világirodalom - fantasy - 20-21. sz., Fantasztikus irodalom - angol - 20-21. sz. |
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| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/86782 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | Approximately around the end of World War 2, a new subgenre of narrative fiction emerged in world literature, championed by English speaking writers: fantasy literature. It is J.R.R. Tolkien's works, especially The Lord of the Rings (written between 1937 and 49, first published in 1954), and its Middle Earth universe that has been considered as the archetype of this kind of “epic high fantasy” model. Ever since the genre gained increasing popularity, an impressive amount of scholarly literature, theoretical works, case studies and adaptations have been devoted to its types, transformations and mutations. A common feature of fantasy novels is the abundance of esoteric motifs ranging from supernatural creatures, demons, spirits, to supernatural actions, magic, witchcraft, transmutation, and the like. In this essay I examine two relatively recent fantasy sagas, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy (1995-2000) and Deborah Harkness’s All Souls Trilogy (2011-14) with the twofold aim to track antecedents of the esoteric fiction tradition and to detect the signs of generic hybridization in both sagas. |
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| Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők: | 9-22 |
| ISBN: | 978-963-688-029-3 |
| ISSN: | 0230-2780 |