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The Fantasy Method of Urban Design
Diseña, 2018 The Fantasy Method of Urban Design is an experimental cross-disciplinary method that aims to predict the future social and technological forces impacting upon our cities, and to design such cities in line with these predictions. Utilizing fantasy is one
Alan Marshall
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Urban fantasy — literatura Niewidocznego
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 This article analyses the nature of urban fantasy by aggregating the claims, suggestions, and observations made by several different accounts of what urban fantasy is.
Stefan Ekman
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Literatura Niewidocznego — wizje i rewizje urban fantasy
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 A discussion Literature of the Unseen—Visions and (Re)visions of Urban Fantasy collects theoretical reflections upon the subgenres of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, along with a brief commentary on the body of text representative for both ...
Stefan Ekman +4 more
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Polskie urban fantasy. Szkic o mieście i miejskości
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica, 2021 Fantastyka miejska cieszy się coraz większym zainteresowaniem czytelników, pozostając jednocześnie na marginesie badań naukowych. Artykuł miał na celu skonkretyzowanie, z czego wywodzi się fantastyka miejska oraz jakie są jej cechy konstytutywne, a ...
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk
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The Legacy of German Romanticism in Russian Urban Fantasy
Научный диалог, 2020 The philosophical views of German romantics, as well as images, motives, chronotopes characteristic of German romanticism, embodied in the domestic urban fantasy are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the techniques of the comparative method.
E. A. Safron
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‘The Past Is Below Us’: Urban Fantasy, Urban Archaeology, and the Recovery of Suppressed History [PDF]
Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2013 Few literary genres have been as intimately connected with the field of archaeology as the genre of urban fantasy, which correlates with urban archaeology through a shared concern with the material history of the city.
Hadas Elber-Aviram, Hadas Elber-Aviram
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 The article A Fantastic Crucible: Genological and Cultural Syncretism in Ben Aaronovitch Urban Fantasy Series “Rivers of London” explores generic and cultural syncretism in the eponymous cycle.
Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
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Urban fantasy, the genre of fantastic literature in which magic and monsters meet modern society, is fairly young but has old roots. Stefan Ekman’s book, Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, examines the genre in depth, including its inherent social commentary, its historical development, and its interplay between modernity and the ...
Stefan Ekman
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Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Ben Aaronovitch’s Urban Fantasy Cycle Rivers of London
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2019 Drawing on Paul Gilroy’s discussion of postimperial melancholia and conviviality, this article aims to examine Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London as a voice in the discussion on British multiculture.
Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
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Countryside Fantasy in the Context of Urban-Rural Divided post-Mao China [PDF]
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2017 This paper focuses on an urban-rural experimental reality television show, The Exchange Programme. Within the context of the contradictions and struggles between capitalism and socialism currently faced by the Chinese government, I argue the programme’s ...
Cheng Han
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