Binding: Hardcover
Description: An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty - first century fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the merely real. It is the lie that speaks truth. This book addresses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: first how can it be meaningful if it doesn't claim to represent things as they are and second what kind of change can it make in the world? How can a form of storytelling that alters physical laws and denies facts about the past be at the same time a source of insight into human nature and the workings of the world? What kind of social political cultural intellectual work does fantasy perform in the world - - the world of the reader that is not that of the characters? Focusing on various aspects of fantastic world - building and story creation in classic and contemporary fantasy from the use of symbolic structures to the way new stories incorporate bits of significance from earlier texts this book shows how fantasy allows writers such as Michael Cunningham Hans Christian Anderson Helene Wecker C. S. Lewis Ursula K. Le Guin Nnedi Okorafor Nalo Hopkinson George Mac Donald Aliette de Bodard and Patricia Wrightson to test new modes of understanding and interaction and thus to rethink political institutions social practices and models of reality.
Title: Fantasy How It Works
Author(s): Attebery Brian (Professor Of English Idaho State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192856234
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 10/28/2022
Category: Fantasy