Fantasy literature

terms of literature, particularly fantasy and crime. For me, literature isn’t just escapism but a way of analysing the world around you, looking at what’s happening and questioning the norm. Be that subverting aspects of a genre or satirising all of society, there’s something special about the ways literature, and more recently, film, can analyse a something in such a way to make anyone who views it analyse their world also. The first book I read that showed me how subversive literature could be…

I read Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane last year for Literature & Rhetoric II. However, to be honest, I definitely tired of reading Neil Gaiman works once we got to this novel. We had already read The Graveyard Book, a volume of The Sandman comics, and The Wolves in the Walls. It was one Gaiman work too many and, last year, I did not really enjoy it too much. I really loved The Sandman collection that we read and felt like I liked him more in that medium. I also thought that The…

In Clark and McDonald’s (2010) text, the theme of the fantasy genre is dispelled through an analysis of the “realization” of Ofelia’s experiences in a fantasy world. The article describes the various aspects adult-themed behaviors that are often interjected into Ofelia’s imagination, which makes the fantasy world more like the “real world” in the plot of this film. The depiction of real life as a more dangerous environment is another major problem with the escapist theme of Pan’s Labyrinth.…

BACKGROUND Fantasy is one of the most popular literary genres. Chadbourn (2008) believes it is because fantasy fulfills people’s desire to read for fun and to escape from reality. Unlike science fiction that tends to be more technological and consists of full of big ideas, fantasy fiction is pretty easy to read (Nicole, 2015). Since it sets in a fictional universe full of mystical creatures, fantasy stories give the readers new experiences that are unfeasible in the real world. Through its…

enthusiastic reviews of the saga, he argues that Harry Potter is "failed fantasy" (Pennington 78) and J.K. Rowling is incapable of abiding to the rules of fantasy literature. Firstly, Pennington claims that Harry Potter merely replicates reality - from Hogwarts to Quidditch, the elements in the saga are nothing more than exotic-sounding names derived from everyday reality - and it's an assemblage of clichés from previous fantasy novels and movies. Moreover,…

believe they are real like Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. But literature can have a big influence on this. I think that literature can contribute to us being able to see things different by the way the show us real life situations. “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennesses Williams Blanche DuBois lives in a world of created fantasy in her mind. The theme of the play goes off of how she can never really distinguish her fantasy life from the reality of her life. She lives in a made-up world…

I have lived my life between two worlds; one of fiction and fantasy where the goal is doubtlessly achieved and the reward outweighs all costs, the other world is filled with disappointment, rare glimpses of true satisfaction, yet it contains my being. The fictional world has satisfied my need for hope during times of great disappointment caused by the latter. My reality has been a girl and her mother fighting against my pain, while others would ignore or deny its constant existence. Throughout…

Literature like many others things didn’t make much sense when I was young. I grew up in a country where literature seemed to be non-existent or just buried within heaps of school textbooks which forced a generation of Nepalese kids to put creativity in the shadows. However, moving to a country with such a rich literary past changed the story completely. Literature at first seemed foreign but once I started devouring books, it just became natural. For me literature bridged the gap between…

glaring back at us, a reflection that imprints in our psyches the fantasies we long to find as truths in our lives. Yet collectively, our readings of literature produce in each of us vastly different reflections, representative of the vastly different fantasies that are derived from our individual perceptions and interpretations of the world. It is this variance in reflections of the world drawn from reading and writing literature that Varga…

Each time I read the question this week for literature, I read “genre bleeding”. I asked myself, “Why does Mrs. Geno want me to write about genre bleeding?” I knew I had to fulfill her wishes, so I just began to research. When I searched for genre bleeding a lot of music popped up. Following this, I felt so confused and wondered how Goldman incorporated this within his novel, The Princess Bride. Every time I read the question, I still read genre bleeding. So, I contacted three of my classmates…