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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"contemporary fantasy"”.
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Magical Musicking: Musical Communication in Contemporary Fantasy Literature
… considers 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 …
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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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Speaking Through Sacrifice: Rhetorical and Social Functions of Sacrifice within Long-Form Contemporary Fantasy Literature
Long-form contemporary fantasy narratives present the opportunity for readers to immerse themselves in worlds both different from and resonant with our own. These narratives are fundamentally invested in questions of how societies change and how they persist. Long-form fantasy works to take readers …
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The Forester
THE FORESTER is a draft of a contemporary fantasy novel.
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The Weight of the Stars
… of the Stars is a foray into the genre of epic fantasy. Based on observations of both classic and contemporary fantasy, this novel is intended as a response to long-held traditions within the genre. The Weight of the Stars seeks to complicate those familiar tropes and reflect a more diverse …
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Cornucopia: Food as Signifier in Literature For the Young
… literature for the young. British and American fantasy, including folk and fairy tales as well as classic and contemporary fantasy, provide the foundation for this study. Feminist criticism allows for an examination of gender roles and stereotypes and reveals that as a rule, authors' use of food …
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Seventeenth-century musical fantasy : origins of freedom and irrationality
The essence of seventeenth-century musical fantasy lies in the contemporary notion of freedom. Contemporary fantasy genres and verbal descriptions of fantasy highlight freedom from given tonal, harmonic, and temporal frameworks. This freedom assumes the composer's ingenuity (freedom to command the …
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Death and Self-Identity in the Contemporary Fantasies of Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, and Steven Erikson
… a self can be Death). I apply this framework to contemporary fantasy in case studies of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Garth Nix’s The Old Kingdom, and Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen to explore how each representation of the three forms of death and their interrelations allows …
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The Rise of Romantasy: Female Desire, Monstrous Feminists, Fairy Tale Ideology, and Societal Panic
<p>This thesis argues that the contemporary rise of Romantasy is not merely a publishing trend but a significant literary and cultural development through which female desire, agency, and subjectivity are being renegotiated. Tracing a historical continuum across Gothic horror, fairy tale discourse, …
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Madam Pele: Novel and essay
… upon their city. Essay. In this essay I cover contemporary theoretical considerations, such as Modernism, Postmodernism and Fantasy, and an analysis of various influential authors' writing techniques, descriptive language and narrative-plot genres, that led me to want to write my novel Madam …