Fantasy literature is one of the rising genres of children's literature. It uses secondary worlds and time elements not found in reality. Common motifs include fantastic settings that are transitions from the realistic world. Characters that inhabit these worlds signal that this is a work of fantasy, sometimes using ordinary characters to relate to readers. Wizards are able to manipulate the world through magical means. Animals also feature, some speaking or understanding humans. Death is used to create suspense. Works show the struggle of human nature and duality. Beneath fantastic surfaces, fantasy often conveys important moral messages.
Archetypal literary criticism is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes (from the Greek archÄ, "beginning," and typos, "imprint") in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary work.
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Archetypal literary criticism is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes (from the Greek archÄ, "beginning," and typos, "imprint") in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary work.
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Modern Fantasy Literature: Essay Ideas
Choose one of the idea and you have to write about it specifically and you canât choose more than one.
You may use these ideas as starting points and discover your own unique angle on the topic/question.
Remember to have a thesis (a main point that controls the entire essay) and support your ideas with textual evidence (references and quotations). Also concluding paragraph. The idea has to be relating to one of the books we used in class.
The essay (5 pages, typed and double-spaced)
How has fantasy paradoxically developed alongside modern science?
How does fantasy question the nature of truth?
How does some fantasy rationalize the otherworld?
What are the narrative structures of some fantasy (such as adventures)?
In what ways is fantasy symbolic?
How does the protagonist (âheroâ) develop through the fantasy narrative?
How does fantasy explore the idea of Time?
How does fantasy explore the nature of romantic relationships?
In what ways does fantasy explore the possibility of otherworldly beings?
Why is setting important? What is the nature of some representative features (landscapes through which the hero adventures)
* More info these the books we use in classÂ
1- George MacDonald, Phantastes (1858). Dover, 2005.
2- William Morris, The Wood beyond the World (1894). Wildside Press, 2005.
3- Lord Dunsany, The King of Elflandâs Daughter (1924). Del Rey, 1999.
4- Robert E. Howard, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (1930s). Del Rey, 2003.
Course Description
The fantastic has been around in literature as early as the medieval and Renaissance periods and even earlier (Beowulf, the King Arthur legends, The Faerie Queene, A Midsummer Nightâs Dream). Many people actually believed in trolls, elves and dragons. But why does Fantasy persist, even thrive, in the modern period? How do we define Fantasy as a genre? We will ask such questions as we adventure in the worlds of William Morris, George MacDonald, Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison, Robert E. Howard, J. R. R. Tolkien and Stephen R. Donaldson. We will investigate our need for quests, explore the unknown and unusual, and encounter characters that defy the categories of being.
III. Course Objectives
--develop a definition of the fantasy genre and identify representative texts of both the genre as a whole and its emerging subgenres in order to examine the concept of genre itself, its usefulness and limitations.
--identify the medieval and Renaissance roots of the material upon which the fantasy genre draws.
--understand the historical, philosophical, and cultural aspects of the rise and continuation of the fantasy genre throughout the modern period.
--examine key examples of fantasy novels and understand how those examples represent major stages in the development/transformation of the genre.
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2. FANTASY LITERATURE
ï” Fantasy Literature is one of the rising and the most powerful genres
of childrenâs literature
ï” Fantasy and our conception of what is fantastic depend upon our
view of reality: what we find improbable and unexpected follows
from what we find probable and likely, and the fantastic will
therefore necessarily vary with the individual and the age.
3. The Two Principal Motifs in Fantasy
ï± The Secondary World
-The most common denomination for the various representations
of magic in fantasy literature is the concept of the Secondary World.
-Fantasy can be assumed roughly as a narrative combining the
presence of the Primary and the Secondary Worlds
ï± The Time Element
- In fantasy, the character may easily live a whole life in the imaginary
world while no time will pass in his reality.
4. Backdrop in Fantasy Literature
ï” The backdrop of fantasy is a very deviant component.
ï” Most works of fantasy like Lewis Carrollâs Aliceâs
Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking
Glass and J. K. Rowlingâs novels share fantastic
settings and characterization
ï” A transition from a realistic world to the fantastic.
5. Personae in Fantasy Literature
ï” The characters that inhabit these fantasy worlds
are a signal to the reader that the work is a
work of fantasy.
ï” Sometimes the characters are so ordinary that
one assumes that the writers are assuring their
readers that the protagonist is âjust like you.â
6. Wizards and Fantasy
ï” Wizards, in essence, are those characters who are able to
manipulate the world around them through superhuman or
magical means.
ï” Authors have created wizards out of men, women and
children.
7. The Role of Animals in Fantasy
ï” The next motif, scattered in all fantasy novels are the animals
that speak, those that do not speak but understand the
language of humans and their feelings, and the
anthropomorphic animals.
ï” Books like Lewis Carrollâs Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderland
and Through the Looking Glass show the latter kind of
animals.
8. The Theme of Death in Fantasy
ï” Fantasy literature introduces the theme of mortality to
make the readers relate to the story and the characters.
ï” Both C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling use death as a suspense
maker in their narratives creating excitement and fear in
the readerâs mind.
9. Duality in Human Nature
ï” This typical literary concept is represented in various ways by
fantasy writers.
ï” Human beings must struggle to find the inner strength to
triumph over their weaknesses and enrich their world with
goodness.
10. Values in Fantasy
ï” Many books of fantasy include magical beings, like dragons,
unicorns, and wizards, and fictional places, like Middle Earth,
Fairy Land etc.
ï” Beneath the fantastic surface of all the terrible, the beautiful, the
magical, the supernatural and mysterious, beyond all the fantastic,
exists an exceedingly more important message with moral
implication.
