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Convention of Contemporary Urban Fantasy Contents [PDF]

The Journal of the Korea Contents Association, 2013
A convention is a customary channel that not only distinguishes the contemporary urban fantasy contents from other genres but also feels familiar with users for its currency. To begin with, the study defines the fantasy investigating the types of the fantasies, the time and the space which are regarded as the world of the fantasy, the fantasy ...
Dong-Hee Shin, Hee-Kyung Kim
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Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd

Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2017
There are good reasons to call London the capital of urban fantasy. Like no other city it embodies an intertwinedness of enlightenment and modernity with notions of the occult, the mythical and the magical. The idea of an urban underworld that somehow is
Arno Meteling
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HOFFMANNIAN TRADITIONS IN DOMESTIC URBAN FANTASY

Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University, 2021
E. Safron
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Thug Realism: Inhabiting Fantasy in Urban Tanzania

Cultural Anthropology, 2002
One of the more compelling developments in contemporary sociocultural anthropology is its increasing attention to "the imagination." From the most spectacular fantasies to the most mundane reveries, imagining the world as it is and as it might be seems to be a rapidly expanding form of activity.
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Never mind the city guides: The topos of a city in urban fantasy (with interpretative emphasis on Neil Gaiman’s novel Neverwhere)

Ars Aeterna, 2021
The paper focuses on the phenomenon of urban fantasy with a particular interest in the topos of a city, which assumes great significance as a thematic and motivic element in the subgenre.
Martin Boszorád, Simona Klimková
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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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Ciemna strona miasta. Fantazmat miejski w urban legends i urban fantasy

Tekstura. Rocznik Filologiczno-Kulturoznawczy, 2014
Aldona Kobus
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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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Traditions of Urban Fantasy in M.Yu. Lermontov’s Novella “Stoss”

Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series "Humanitarian and Social Sciences", 2017
E. Safron
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