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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"fantasy literature"”.
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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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Ecoconscious: Skilful Sensing in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
… thesis reveals that, vitally, contemporary YA fantasy novels tend to represent the senses as skills and thereby convey human participation in nature with some optimism. Human characters who learn to sense skilfully value their humanimal embodiment and interact responsively with nonhumans, …
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Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature
Fantasy literature has long been considered an inherently conservative genre. However, Ernst Bloch’s Marxist theory of a utopian anticipatory consciousness and his concept of nonsynchronism recognize a progressive, utopian function within the archetypes and allegories of fairy tales, a precursor to …
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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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Making worlds collide : using Tolkien’s fantasy literature to create a new leadership development framework
… find new ways to generate innovative solutions. Literature reviews reveal that leaders and leadership developers have generally not considered the possibility of using speculative fiction and fantasy literature as a source for imaginative growth and the stimulation of multiple perspectives. This …
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Teaching critical literacy skills through fantasy literature : case studies from three Connecticut high schools
… the teaching of critical literacy through fantasy literature. This research explores the possibility of a union between a pedagogy of empowerment and a literature of the fantastic, a union which will help improve our lives and democratize our world while validating a literature, often seen …
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Heroics and humanism: A study of intra-genre divergence within modern French fantasy literature
… study explores the manner in which modern French fantasy novels have diverged from the Tolkienian, high-fantasy precedent established in the late 90s and the very early 2000s. From 2010–2020, authors Jean-Philippe Jaworski, Justine Niogret, Pierre Pevel, and Claire Duvivier have re-imagined the …
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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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Hermione syndrome: Reexamining feminist sidekicks and power in 2000-2010 children’s and young adult fantasy literature
… decade saw a proliferation of English language fantasy texts for young readers. In the wake of <em>Harry Potter’s</em> success, many other fantasy series followed patterns laid down in Rowling’s text, including writing female characters as Hermione-shaped girls and women. While there are …
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Fur, fangs and feathers: colonial and counter-colonial portrayals of American Indians in young adult fantasy literature
… characters in children’s and young adult literature, the majority of these have focused on historical novels, rather than analysing fantasy literature. Additionally, I have found no direct comparisons between texts by Native and non-Native authors, and the impact of authorship on the …
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Imagination at the progressive border: can fantasy literature foster a liminal space for social justice-oriented narrative-based belief change in the individual?
… (2019) and Trębicki (2011) have discussed how fantasy literature responds to the time in which it is created and the way in which it can introduce ideas about progressive change. Drobot (2019) also suggests that fantasy novels help us think about the past and how societal beliefs and values …
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A discussion of the elements of fantasy and children's literature applied to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Magician's Nephew, to conclude whether or not they are good children's literature
… the principles of previous studies of children's literature and the psychological development of children, this work examines the literary texts, Hany Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia, to determine whether or not they succeed as good fantasy literature for children.
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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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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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White Knowledge and the Cauldron of Story: The Use of Allusion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
… through a few key directions: folk tales, fantasy literature, movies, and rock music.</p><p>Pratchett has received limited critical review, mostly of a negative nature, while producing a strong literary series, one crafted with both obvious and subtle recognition of his genre's sources. …
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Reconciling the Functions of Tragedy and Fantasy
This thesis experiments with concepts of fantasy and tragedy in order to produce knowledge through practice-led research that facilitates an understanding of the links between the genres. It demonstrates that tragedy and fantasy literature are compatible forms that can operate effectively in a …
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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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Finding the Fantastic: Digitally Mapping the London of Fantasy Youth Literature
… the centrality of London as a setting in English literature, interpretations and imaginations of the literary city have continually been re-written to incorporate new social norms. As the city expanded, concerns arose around the movement of women and children within the urban environment. These …
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Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa
… thesis engages the figure of the Chosen One in fantasy literature. The Chosen One arises as a key figure in fantasy and exists today in the Anglo-American literary imagination as a hero above other heroes. This figure embodies Anglo-American understandings of the Hero's Journey and savior …
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