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Genre fantasy
Where imagination meets yearning
Set in an imaginary universe
Magic and other supernatural elements
Good vs. Evil
Fantasy : it is only for children
Fantasy: it is nothing but totally
nonsense
What better way to explore what it
means to be human than by putting
humans outside the constraints of real
world certainties, politics, histories,
physics and geographies?
J. R. R. Tolkien : father of modern fantasy
THE HOBBIT (1937)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
(1954)
THE EAGLE AND THE CHILD
• Homer's Odyssey
• William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland
• Dracula by Bram Stoker.
• Narnia by C.S.Lewis
• The sword of shannara – Terry Brooks
• Lord foul’s bane – Stephen R. Donaldson
• The wonderful wizard of oz – Frank Baum
• Earthsea series – Urusula K. Le Guin
• Harry Potter series – J.K.Rowling
•
Epic Fantasy / High Fantasy
Contemporary fantasy:
Urban Fantasy
Dark Fantasy:
Romantic Fantasy:
Low fantasy:
Magical realism
Magic in many forms
• ethnic cleansing
• Slavery
• Immigration
• Feminism
• Corruption
• Wrath of wars
• Friction amongst different social strata
• A single dream is more
powerful than a
thousand realities
--- J.R.R. Tolkien

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Genre fantasy

Editor's Notes

  1. Before moving to technicalities I would like to talk to you about a film ..yes a film..not a book..but a film that has created a lot of frenzy in the indian population these days..a film that has broken all the records previously set by any bollywood film at least in terms of box office
  2. This movie proves beyond doubt how a epic fantasy story can win the hearts of millions of people. and that is my topic today genre fantasy But first things first let us make ourselves clear of what do we mean by fantasy?
  3. now I would like to ask you to tell me a book that u have read which involves these themes .. Which you can assert that yes that is a fantasy book I have read………………… there are other two genres which are verymuch related to fantasy but which are much more popular amongst folks ….
  4. Many of us have read books on science fiction ,horror but to a lesser extent about the genre fantasy. and why ? .....what are the logics that people put forward against reading fantasy series…
  5. No its not its totally a wrong notion… fantasy is today not only limited to fairy tales …it is like a large ball of with a large number of threads flying in different directions from it sometimes crisscrossing each other and sometimes not! It makes me think how snobbish we are! When we were small we yearned to hear the rupkothas from our grand parents…the pokhirajer ghora …the bangoma bangomis…the suk and sari…but now we grow up and we say fantasy is a farrago of lies & immaginations…we forget that within each of us is a child a little one who wants to believe … who wants to imagine..besides the obvious spur of immagination and creativity which is so lacking in the adults of the world fantasy explores the human conditions and the nuances of human personalities motives fears joys and everything in between …. Fans of the fantasy genre are often termed escapists..but the funny thing is that in fantasy you often encounter brutal violence abuse betreyals social decay and injustice tyranny and tragedies in a way that can get ‘censored’ in real life media
  6. This is another common myth.and it is in itself nonsense.fantasy doesnot means you can write anything yet it means you can write anything but these two anythings are different from each other.let me tellow how to write fantasy stories: first of all create an imaginary universe …and then people heroes .villains ..side characters in that universe who are bound to function under the specific rules of that universe just like we are bound to our own world and its principles… infact I see fantasy novels as a mirror of the lives of people… the rich the poor ..the kings the thugs the prists the anarchsts …. And so……….
  7. The Inklings was an Oxford writers' group which included C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Hugo Dyson. From late 1933, they met on Thursday evenings at Lewis's college rooms at Magdalen, where they would read and discuss various material, including their unfinished manuscripts it was at one of those meetings in June 1950 that C.S. Lewis distributed the proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
  8. The Brothers Grimm travelled from village to village for thirteen years collecting fairy tales such as 'Cinderella', 'Snow White' and 'Rumpelstiltskin' - and prided themselves on making accurate transcriptions of the stories they were told