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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"epic fantasy"”.
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Turbulent Times: Epic Fantasy in Adolescent Literature
… my own life that exemplifies the effect reading epic fantasy has had on me.</p> <p>The aspects of epic fantasy in relation to going through adolescence I examine include the concept of responsibility and its relation to progress and maturity; gaining a social identity; and reconciling oneself to …
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The Stone of Amaaranth: An Epic Fantasy Novel for Middle Grade Readers
<p>The Stone of Amaranth is a chapter book for kids nine to fourteen, set in medieval times, and the coming of age story for a boy and a girl. The boy is trained by an old hermitic woman to search for magic stones. She calls him Boy because of a spell which prevents either of them from knowing his …
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Blood ties : and 'Kings. what a good idea' : monarchy in epic fantasy fiction
The thesis Blood Ties is a novel in the epic fantasy tradition. It is intended to be the first of The Castings Trilogy. A synopsis of the second and third books of the trilogy is also included. The exegesis, “‘Kings. What a good idea.’: Monarchy in epic fantasy fiction”, examines some of the …
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Resonance of the heroic epic : investigating the rhythm and shape of post-1990 American genre fantasy
… is often critically examined, contemporary epic fantasy requires attention. This thesis will address a gap in genre scholarship and will focus on authors who have published from 1990 onwards. While this thesis will focus on close readings of a select few authors in order to delve into the …
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Epic Adolescence: Contemporary Adolescence in Philip Pullman’s <i>His Dark Materials</i>
… it can help to look at the world of fiction and fantasy. Though this idea may seem ironic or counter-intuitive, one will find that fictional literature can reveal the working order of its respective society. Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials, uses and manipulates the …
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The Weight of the Stars
… Weight 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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Third person narrator for reader engagement craft paper with Courtesan witches creative writing
… a character and narrator while Martin writes an epic fantasy where the reader watches a character developing into a narrator. Part 2 is a creative writing sample that includes 50-pages from Courtesan Witches, an alternative historical fiction about a female courtesan, whose mother burned at the …
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The Sword of Truth, Tribute Synthesizer Suite
… original musical work based on Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy "The Sword of Truth." Various characters in the text are set to music similar to the "leitmotif" technique used by operatic and film composers such as Wagner and John Williams. Blind since birth, Jay Pellis used advanced computer …
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Notes of Venom and Vengeance
<p>In this new adult epic fantasy, the land is either poisoned or poisonous, the Gods don’t listen, and the Silvan High Fae have vanished into the mists of time. In the Silgan Empire in the city of Fall’s End, humans run the Kingdom while Low Fae like Madrigal struggle to make ends meet in the …
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Sarah Across America
… to Western European, history in service of an epic fantasy adventure story exploring themes of racism and imperialism. </p> <p>Sarah Across America takes as its inspiration an American epic, the journey of the Corps of Discovery across a continent largely unexplored by English-speakers. Lewis …