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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463272303321

Autore

Ekman Stefan <1961->

Titolo

Here be dragons [[electronic resource] ] : exploring fantasy maps and settings / / Stefan Ekman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8195-7324-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/8766

Soggetti

Fantasy fiction - History and criticism

Landscapes in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Here Be DRAGONS; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. INTRODUCTION; The Relevance of Settings; What Is Fantasy?; 2. MAPS; Previous Explorations of Fantasy Maps; What Is a Fantasy Map?; A Survey of Fantasy Maps; Reading Fantasy Maps; 3. BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES; Together Apart: Borders in Brust, Gaiman and Vess, and Nix; The Geography of History: Polders in Tolkien, Holdstock, and Pratchett; 4. NATURE AND CULTURE; Two Slippery Terms; The Return of the Tree: Bringing Nature Back into Minas Tirith; Nature, Magic, and Misfits: Wilderness within Newford

Blurred Boundaries: Conflux in New CrobuzonGrowing Somewhere In-Between: Liminal Nature in Ombria; 5. REALMS AND RULERS; Linking Rulers to Realms: An Overview; Ruling the Mythical Landscape: The Fisher King in Last Call; Shaping the Realm: Palimpsests in Tourists; Where Dark Lords Live: Landscapes of Evil in Tolkien, Donaldson, and Jordan; 6. SOME FINAL THOUGHTS; Appendix A: Method for the Map Survey; Appendix B: Map Sample; Notes; Bibliography; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literature