02277naa a2200241 i 4500 acta86782 20250331134147.0 250321s2024 hu o 000 eng d 978-963-688-029-3 0230-2780 SZTE Egyetemi Kiadványok Repozitórium hun eng Szőnyi György Endre The progress of esoteric fiction in relation to fantasy literature [elektronikus dokumentum] / Szőnyi György Endre SZTE IEAS Szeged 2024 9-22 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 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. Bölcsészettudományok Nyelvek és irodalom Angol irodalom története - 20-21. sz., Fantasztikum - irodalmi - 20-21. sz., Világirodalom - fantasy - 20-21. sz., Fantasztikus irodalom - angol - 20-21. sz. http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/86782/1/papers_028_009-022.pdf Dokumentum-elérés