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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"fantasy fiction"”.
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The power of belief: Innocents and innocence in children's fantasy fiction
<p>The power of belief is a reoccurring theme in fantasy fiction for children and young adults. Oftentimes such belief merely affects the internal make-up of children or child-likecharacters,giving them the confidence that they need to act upon the world, but at other times belief acts to magically …
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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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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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Entering the Contact Zone: Encountering the Animal in Children's Fantasy Fiction and Film
… contact zone within the framework of children’s fantasy literature and film. It is conducted at the intersection where children’s literature, philosophy, posthumanism and animal studies meet. The term ‘contact zone’ describes the act of two entities moving into a physical space where their world …
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The Horned God as Environmental Figure in Anglophone Fantasy Fiction and Live Action Role-Play.
… as an environmental figure in modern paganism, fantasy fiction and Live Action Role-Play, while acknowledging that these three fields are interconnected. The Horned God is a modern pagan deity popularised by ‘grandmother of Wicca’, Margaret Murray, and associated with wild nature and chthonic …
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TURKISH FANTASY FICTION FILMS THEN AND NOW: AN ANALYSIS OF FANTASY FILMS PRODUCED IN EARLY 1970s TURKEY
Turkish cinema has produced very few examples of fantasy fiction genre films since its beginning in 1914 except for the 1970s Yeşilçam era. The first film ever to be made in Turkey by a Turkish filmmaker (Fuat Uzkınay) is credited as Ayastefanos’taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı (The Destruction of the …
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The value hierarchies of J.R.R. Tolkien and his legacy: a reimagining of fantasy fiction and the propagation of colonial racism
<p>J.R.R. Tolkien’s impact on modern fantasy fiction is remarkable. However, while some of the changes to the genre ushered in by Tolkien’s work are positive, other aspects of his legacy are more problematic. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion are based on his …
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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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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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Sting of the Gallfly
… of <em>Sting of the Gallfly, </em>a work of fantasy fiction with a setting inspired by marginalia in gothic medieval manuscripts. A child’s drawing comes to life with a dangerous appetite, causing her to flee her monastic home. She meets a thief on the road with secrets of his own, and the …
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An Exploration of the Psyche in "Era of Black"
… have become, over time, established tropes in Fantasy Fiction as a brief discussion of my conscious strategy to reject the normative structures set in modern fantasy literature in my own fiction project “Era of Black.” Second is an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, in which I deploy specific …
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Advantages of Magic Systems in Literature
Fantasy fiction is a varied genre with a long history in literature. Throughout the ages people have told stories that feature epic, often impossible, circumstances and many of those tales made their way into writing. Many such stories contain magic and it is the calculated approach that modern …
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“Girls Who Kick Butt”: A Cognitive Interpretation of Tamora Pierce’s Adolescent Feminist Fantasy
… evidence supports the theoretical stance that fiction provides vicarious experiences of imagined spaces and situations that can help shape our perceptions of the real world, our social others, and the self. The implications for this are especially interesting for adolescents, as their brains …
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Low Culture Fever: Pulp Science in Chinese Comics After Mao
… sensational and fantastic romance and adventure fiction, otherwise obscured by the revolutionary fiction of the preceding decades. Providing far more than mere “escapism,” however, the popularity of science popularization comic books is shown to derive from their unique willingness to directly …
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In between Materiality and Meaning: World, Dust and Daemon in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy
… based in Christian belief. As a New Atheist fantasy fiction written to young adult and adult readers, Pullman’s enthusiasm for playing with and materializing obscure religious concepts and relating them to our real life through story-telling is remarkable. This research is aimed to analyse …
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Guardian, a novel
1 PDF file (iii, 129 pages)
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Starkin
In traditional fantasy novels, as established with J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings, the main character embarks on a heroic journey. As defined by Joseph Campbell, who was the author, editor and translator of books on mythology such as The Hero with a Thousand Faces a heroic journey is an epic …
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Prophet loss
1 PDF file (iii, 73 pages)
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