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development of fantasy genre (fantasy (It has been treated as a genre, a…
development of fantasy genre
fantasy
It has been treated as a genre, a style, or a narrative technique, and it is sometimes regarded as purely formulaic fiction
Fantasy literature is a modern phenomenon.
Fantasy becomes a strong tradition in Britain in the second half of the 19th century with names such as Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in the Wonderland, 1865), Charles Kingsley, and George MacDonald.
Fantasy is one of the most ambiguous notions in literary criticism
fantasy may be roughly defined as a narrative combining the presence of the Primary and the Secondary worlds, that is, our own real world and some other, magical or fantastic, imagined world
full‐length novels
several ways of distinguishing between fairy tales and fantasy:
generic, structural (that is, spatio‐temporal), and epistemological
fairy tales
although they often include transportation to some other realm by means of a magical agent, take place in one imaginary world, which does not have any connection with reality.
Fairy tales have their roots in archaic society and archaic thought, thus immediately succeeding myths.
short texts
two principal motifs
Secondary worlds (The Narnia Chronicles 1950–6, The Neverending Story, 1979)
time travel or time displacement (The House of Arden 1908, A Traveller in Time 1939, Tom's Midnight Garden 1958).
obsession with time
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
based on the suspension of disbelief
was much inspired by early Germanic, especially Old English, literature, poetry, and mythology