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Fear and Fantasy in the Public Domain: The Development of Secured and Themed Urban Space [PDF]
Journal of Urban Design, 2007 Current projects to upgrade public spaces in Western cities seek to produce secured space by improving safety and decrease feelings of fear, and to produce themed space by promoting urban entertainment or fantasy. This study examines how ‘fear’ and ‘fantasy’ influence urban design and management of two public spaces in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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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 ...
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The transformation of contemporary analyses of oral folklore: Fairy tale versus fantasy [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2010 The study focuses on contemporary forms of folklore and their relationship to literary forms like Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror and Fantasy Game. The first problem is the specification of the terms and the classification of the internal structure of these ...
Otčenášek Jaroslav
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Wokół definicji fantastyki miejskiej
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Fantasy literature in the 1980s underwent a revisionist change, which resulted in the emergence of a number of subgenres that challenged the dominant Tolkien model of fantasy writing.
Sarai Mannolini-Winwood
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Miasta kanibalistyczne. Poczwarne ciała miejskie we współczesnej
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 The article Cannibal Cities: Monstrous Urban Bodies in Contemporary Fantasy discusses the literalization of the metaphor of the body politic in contemporary urban fantasy.
Elana Gomel
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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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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Non-existent before the late 1980s, in recent years urban fantasy / paranormal romance has become the prevailing form of the monstrous Gothic in popular culture.
Leigh M. McLennon
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 It is not a coincidence that urban fantasy is being identified with modern, futuristic metropolises. On its streets, two worlds are juxtaposed: the real and the magical.
Konrad Zielonka
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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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Nature vs. “Reality” in Fantasy Fiction: The Potential for Ecocritical Imaginings
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2021 Despite being prominently associated with its supernatural qualities, nature also features prominently in fantasy fiction, an aspect of the genre that is often overlooked.
Reyyan Bal
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