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The Language of Fantasy: Linguistic Features in Mythological and Fantasy Literature
Dialogue, integration of sciences and cultures in the process of scientific and professional educationThis paper explores the linguistic features of fantasy and mythological literature, focusing on invented languages, archaic diction, poetic structures, and mythological intertextuality. Through an analysis of works by J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K.. Rowling, and Neil Gaiman, the study highlights how language shapes world-building and narrative depth. It examines
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The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
, 2012 Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers.
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2016
Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the ...
Michael Levy, Farah Mendlesohn
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Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the ...
Michael Levy, Farah Mendlesohn
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Fantasy: The Literature of Repetition
2016This thesis examines the ways in which a heteronormative ‘legacy code’ – exemplified by Lady Éowyn in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – has been perpetuated in literature marketed towards young adult readers by Hermione Granger in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series and ‘refactored’ by Keladry of Mindelan in Tamora Pierce’s Protector of the Small ...
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Collection Building, 1994
Ancient and universal, fantasy was most likely the first mainstream literature rather than the naturalism later recognized as mainstream. Every generation of every culture tells and retells tales based on psychological archetypes, the elements of fantasy.
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Ancient and universal, fantasy was most likely the first mainstream literature rather than the naturalism later recognized as mainstream. Every generation of every culture tells and retells tales based on psychological archetypes, the elements of fantasy.
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The a to Z of Fantasy Literature
2009Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late ...
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2021
Literary space has long been a subject of interest both as a valued skill to authors and as an interesting field of research for those in search of literary analysis. Especially in plot-driven literature, space can play an important role, sometimes acting almost as a secondary character and other times adding important symbolic detail to the story ...
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Literary space has long been a subject of interest both as a valued skill to authors and as an interesting field of research for those in search of literary analysis. Especially in plot-driven literature, space can play an important role, sometimes acting almost as a secondary character and other times adding important symbolic detail to the story ...
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