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Other Worlds: The Fantasy Genre
Fantasy permits its readers a certain distance from pragmatic affairs and offers them a clearer insight into them. It offers a parallel reality, which gives us a renewed awareness of what we already know. Fantasy invites the reader to recover a belief which has been beclouded by knowledge, to renew a faith which has been shattered by fact. As the pace of modern life quickens, the fascination for fantasy literature quickens simultaneously.
130 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1983
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February 4, 2021
A super useful text for anyone looking to understand the rich background of the fantasy genre. Timmerman's study breaks fantasy down to its most basic components and discusses them each in turn in a rich way that will keep the reader's interest, even if academic scholarship isn't their normal genre of choice.
Timmerman writes, "There is an enormous and unquenchable thirst in humankind for precisely this opportunity for pause," and it truly makes one look at the fantasy genre differently, particularly in our current, pandemic-plagued climate wherein we're all desperate for a bit of escapism.
Timmerman writes, "There is an enormous and unquenchable thirst in humankind for precisely this opportunity for pause," and it truly makes one look at the fantasy genre differently, particularly in our current, pandemic-plagued climate wherein we're all desperate for a bit of escapism.
February 18, 2008
Timmerman gives an elementary view of the genre that is slightly religious at times but illuminating at others.
October 18, 2011
Interesting and everything, but a bit bogged down by detailing all the specific examples in numerous fantasy/sci-fi books. Too much Watership Down, not enough lofty generalizations? Maybe?
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