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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Fantasy Genre"”.
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A very British spectacle? : critical reception of the fantasy genre within contemporary British cinema
… what David Butler refers to as a ‘golden age’ of fantasy film production. The majority of fantasy films released during this time have originated from British literature, and have to some extent been produced and located within Britain, showcasing a wealth of national characters, acting talent, …
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Magic, monsters, and Merlin: an exploration of the fantasy genre in a fifth grade setting
… exploratory investigation were to determine how fantasy literature helps children explore, process, and discuss real world issues and topics and what other applications the genre had in the classroom. This study was conducted by implementing a genre study in a fifth grade classroom. Seventeen …
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The Power Fantastic: How Genre Expectations Mediate Authority
… reconciles academic and popular uses of the term genre, concluding that genre is a transmedial, mutable, associative, recognized system regulated through tacit understandings of prestige and power in a given Social space. The study employs a digital humanities method (dependent on digitally …
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(In)humans: Shifting Narratives of Race And Species In Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
… dissertation I interrogate the ways in which the fantasy genre engages with the topic of race, in particular the ways in which it uses the established genre convention of non-human sentient species to tell stories that both critique and reinforce hegemonic narratives of race. I begin with an …
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Archives of facade
Fantasy is a genre that seldom includes black characters. When black characters are present, they often lack the same narrative significance, reliability and character growth that is given to white characters. This can lead to poorly written black characters that lack purpose or fall victim to …
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The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
… the Attic to the male-dominated, gender biased fantasy genre that works to support and embolden evidence of an existing "anxiety of authorship" among modern women fantasy writers. Anxiety faced by women writers in the fantasy genre is multifaceted in that previous fantasy works as well as …
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Magical Musicking: Musical Communication in Contemporary Fantasy Literature
… the role of magical music in contemporary fantasy novels through a thematic comparative study of nine texts. It slots into a gap in the literature regarding the intermedial, ekphrastic depiction of music in the written word, as previous studies have largely focused on realist texts and …
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Daughter of another
The fantasy genre has always been a way to explore and express the imagination and worlds only dreamt of. This project examines methods of writing fantasy from a decolonized perspective and what that looks like, comparing existing fantasy anthologies and novels to those that are currently in the …
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God of Toil
God of Toil is a feature screenplay in the fantasy genre that questions the concepts of destiny and birthright while exploring the morality of war. The hero Rufus is a retired warrior of mythical stature desperate to leave behind his violent ways in order to live a life of pacifism and service. …
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There and Back Again: Tolkien's Epic Writing and Revising Process Informs Composition Theory
… of an ecosystem which influenced his view of the fantasy genre and vice versa. All of these observations have profound implications for understanding the development of a text and for teaching writing.
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LIONS AND POLAR BEARS AND GENDER ROLES, OH MY! The Treatment of Women and Femininity in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
From the earliest works of the genre, fantasy fiction has had a complicated relationship with gender and feminism. C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia is seen by many as a prime example of fantasy's patriarchal roots, with its strong adherence to traditional gender roles and controversial …
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LIONS AND POLAR BEARS AND GENDER ROLES, OH MY! The Treatment of Women and Femininity in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
From the earliest works of the genre, fantasy fiction has had a complicated relationship with gender and feminism. C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia is seen by many as a prime example of fantasy's patriarchal roots, with its strong adherence to traditional gender roles and controversial …
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Cogwheels of the fantastic: The mechanisms of medieval fantasy
… the fundamental mechanics of the medieval fantasy genre, including its relationship with violence, environment, worldbuilding, and power dynamics. This thesis aims to help establish the start of a lexicon of shared terminology and fantasy novum to better facilitate criticism of medieval …
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On Drawings of Dragons
<p>Fantasy functions in a strange ebb and flow—constantly negotiating with truth, reality, history, and culture. This essay interrogates visual material which largely accompanies literature within the fantasy genre, a subgenre of speculative fiction typically set in magical worlds apart from our …
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The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy
<p><em>The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy </em>explores the power of the dictator novel in Latinx literature, specifically within the young adult fantasy genre. Drawing upon the work of Jennifer Harford-Vargas to examine the relationship between the forms of power and the power of the …
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To Be or Not to Be: On the Ontology and Morality of Metafictional Characters in The Dirge City Story
… and attempts to subvert stereotypes within the fantasy genre and comment on storytelling within the genre. This thesis is also a critical exploration of the ontology of self-aware fictional characters and the effect of self-awareness on morality. By examining the second act from The Dirge City …
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Evolving a Genre: Doctor Strange Comics as Post-Fantasy
… postmodern techniques that modernize the genre. Strange's debut series, Strange Tales, begins this development of stylistic changes, but it still relies heavily on standard uses of the fantastic. The 2015 series, Doctor Strange, builds on the evolution of the fantastic apparent in its …
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Aktualizace řeckých mýtů v současné anglosaské literatuře a jejich kritický ohlas
… of Greek mythology, its connection to the fantasy genre, and the role of retellings in Western literature. It also introduces the methodological framework and defines literary criticism as a key tool for analyzing reception of both readers and critics. The main analytical section is devoted …
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Distorted bodies: gender, sexuality and performativity in twentieth-century Italian fantasy literature
Any examination of fantasy literature’s rich use of symbolic subject matter can reveal both the genre’s highly subversive potential, and its capacity to explore concepts generally perceived as off-limits, examples of which have famously been transgressive sexuality and gender expression. …
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Engaging with comedy as social conscience in Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld”
… segment who rejected the text on generic (fantasy) grounds. Of those with a greater investment of time, in dramatic production, this led to resentment and a refusal to impute any significance to the text. Audiences of the productions who invested less time rejected the fantasy genre but …
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