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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 ...
Ekman, Stefan, Ekman, Stefan,
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Wokół definicji fantastyki miejskiej [PDF]
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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Definiując urban fantasy i romans paranormalny. Przekraczanie granic gatunków, mediów, a także siebie i innych w nowych nadprzyrodzonych światach [PDF]
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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Fantastyczny tygiel. Synkretyzm gatunkowy i kulturowy w cyklu urban fantasy Bena Aaronovitcha „Rzeki Londynu” [PDF]
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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Polskie urban fantasy. Szkic o mieście i miejskości [PDF]
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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For a Theory of Urban Reification: Designing Urban Things and its Fantasies
Springer Briefs in GeographyAbstract This chapter sets out the basis for a theory of reification (the objectification of social relations), based on concrete examples presented in the previous chapter. It sets a cognitive map of how ideology and desire are used to frame urban experiences.
Camilo Vladimir de Lima Amaral
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London Urban Fantasy : Places with History
, 2018 London is one of the more popular settings for urban fantasy, standing out by offering both a great many famous locations and a history of two millennia. This essay argues that the city’s past is used to create a sense of “London-ness” by examining ten urban-fantasy versions of London.
Ekman, Stefan
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Crime Stories and Urban Fantasy
, 2017 Among the many unexplored areas of urban fantasy is its relation to crime fiction.This article explores how features of the crime story are used to emphasize, reinforce, or introduceurban fantasy’s social commentary. It looks at the genres’ relationship, analyzing three urbanfan tasies and their respective crime fiction elements.
Ekman, Stefan
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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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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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