Sexual fantasy

Of the fifteen fantasy novel covers, there seems to be an implicit standard in employing Arthurian and medieval themes among most illustrators. The heavily romanticized rendering of the fantasy story as an archetypical tale with green dragons, enchanted weapons, and gratuitous cleavage operates as a genre identifier, similar to the burly-haired lumberjacks of romance novels. While it may seem detrimental for the genre to don a homogeneous veil, the purpose of collective identity remains. When picking up Holly Black’s Ironside, the illustration of a white floral wreath bordered by silver leaves, leaves ambiguity. Flipping the book to its backside leads to more leaves. Near Ironside, sits Lucy’s Blade by John Lambshead, which features: a green-scaled…

Using Laplance and Pontalis’s ‘structural understanding of fantasies as myths of origin’ and Freud’s ‘original fantasy’, Williams shows how all three genres explore enigmas of sexual desire, sexual difference and self. Pornography addresses sexual desire and its unknown origin, by creating a fantasy of the perfect moment where a seducer and the seduced may meet and share moments of pleasure ‘on time’. Unalike pornography, horror explores sexual difference through the fantasy of castration, which…

As discussed in class, we looked into Tolkien's mind to observe his ideas on how fantasy stories should function in order to create a successful “world” for a reader to dive into. In an essay “On Fairy Stories,” written by Tolkien, he describes to us what he believes makes a “fairy story,” a “fairy story.” One of these rules he describes is Escape and the ways a story can connect, not only within itself but, with the reader in order to create a total immersion between the reader and book. When I…

Fantasy Chapter book 1. In the Keifer textbook, they name several fantasy elements. I chose to read The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall because I have always enjoyed the supernatural. This book follows a young orphan as she moves in with her uncle and aunt and begins to be visited by the ghost of her late cousin. The main element of fantasy for this particular novel would be the supernatural element. 2. The author is able to make the story believable by making the main character relatable to many…

The elements of storytelling based on fantasy began in historic times as a way to explain the unknown. Literature has evolved since those times and many of the unknowns have now been explained through rational scientific methodologies. Stories based in fantasy, however, continue to be one of the most popular genres. Some of reasons for this include the human disposition to dream and wonder about worlds beyond our grasp. Stories based in fantasy both challenge and offer guidance to morals,…

mind probably goes to a fantasy fiction book, right? Well, the book, Jeremy Visick, by David Wiseman, gives you a lot of fantasy, and a little bit of mystery mixed together. Within the book, you will read about Matthew Clemens. After Matthew was sent out to get blackberries, he falls over the bushes and land on a tombstone. He reads this tombstone and the tombstone belongs to a family called, The Visicks. On this tombstone it talks about how a miner and his two sons died in an accident in a mine…

Hank the Cowdog, which was about a dog who lived on a farm and would always go on adventures, such as saving the farm from coyotes or rescuing the pretty collie next door. In the 5th grade I started reading two of my now favorite series, A Series of Unfortunate Events and 39 Clues, which most of my friends recommended to me. Another one of my favorite books at this time, and still is today, is A Wrinkle in Time. One of the many reasons I loved this book was because it explores the depth of…

In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, (rpt. in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015] 1136-1185) each individual character thrives to make their fantasy reality. The story takes place around the same time frame as The Great Depression making the Wingfield’s dreams almost impossible to come true. Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield are defiantly different, however the family all share the aspiration of a fantasy…

Fantasy Genre Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in exotic fictional worlds where magic and magical creatures are common. The development of the fantasy’s themes and motifs can be explained by the release of The Lord of the Ring. This film did much to establish the genre of fantasy as commercially distinct and viable. Today fantasy continues as…

Go Away from the ‘’Hell’’ Fantasy in Daniel Woodrell Winter’s Bone In the Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell narrates a story of a girl Ree Dolly. She is trying to find her father, Jessup, who produces drugs, and then persuade him to show in the court. However, it is not extremely successful to find him since someone takes charge of Jessup. Ree asks many people about trail of her father but still has no answer. At that time, she gets scared from Uncle Teardrop and beat by other women in…