Fantasy Fiction

Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones, and Multiple Media Engagements explores women in the transmedia GOT universe, which consists of George R. R. Martin’s book series, the HBO television show, computer games, and online fan activities. Here are eleven chapters by eleven scholars who differ in their views on the Westerosi women. Is this postfeminism for a neo-liberal and post-9/11 age? Is it antifeminist entertainment dressed up in pre-feminist medieval clothes? Or might neither of the two positions in effect be any good for women? Martin has called himself a feminist but others disagree. The contributors differ in their view of the gender politics in GoT. Here are articles on sexual scripts and politics, on adapting desire from book to television, adapting sex and violence from words into televisual sex and violence, on women in computer games, women with dragons, women as head of families, women as mothers and warriors and Machiavellian princes, on neoliberal fuck-politics and, finally, on female fans on the internet. The anthology explores the women of ice and fire with the aim to carve out new roads in the gender terrain of GoT as well as map new territory in women’s engagement with transmedia fantasy entertainment.

A practical demonstration of how critical world-building can be used in reading a world. As a test-case, we use the alternate history 'Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Airplanes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum' by Benjamin Rosenbaum (2004). Critical world-building tools are applied to the relation between the fictional worlds and the actual world, to a close-reading of the first sentence of the short-story, and to a thematic interpretation of world elements related to the two female characters.

Artykuły naukowe
Tolkien w oczach mediewisty
Thomas Honegger

Tolkien i wikingowie. Czyli o związkach J. R. R. Tolkiena
z wiktoriańską literaturą na temat Północy
Michał Leśniewski

Z Prus do Anglii. Saga rodziny J. R. R. Tolkiena (XIV-XIX wiek)
Ryszard Derdziński

Silmarillion – allotopia J. R. R. Tolkiena w perspektywie ardologicznej
Krzysztof M. Maj

Nomadyczność w cieniu Mordoru
Jakub Alejski

Inspiracja radykalna, czyli wątki tolkienowskie w twórczości Varga Vikernesa
Adam Podlewski

Rozmowa numeru
Między Oksfordem a Mordorem
Rozmowa z Katarzyną Mroczkowską-Brand

Tolkien nadal inspiruje badaczy
Rozmowa z Andrzejem Szyjewskim

Recenzje naukowe
Przekonując przekonanych (rec. Michał Cetnarowski, Podwójna tożsamość bogów)
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk

Czy hrabia Dracula to homo sapiens? Wampiry i wampiryzm w perspektywie nie tylko literaturoznawczej (rec. Krystian Saja, Wampir w świecie antropii)
Kamila Gieba

Litterrarium
Pokój wrzasku
Ted Kosmatka

Życie Lothara Hreinholtza
Krzysztof Rewiuk

Świadectwo dokonań rzetelnych zabójczego fachu
Dagmara Adwentowska

Królowie przychodzą znikąd
Aleksandra Brokman

Pani kruków i krwi
Luiza Leszczyńska

The paper presents a brief survey of several Classical ideas on the role of music from the writings of Plato, Iamblichus, Cicero, Macrobius, and other ancient philosophers that might have infiltrated Tolkien’s subcreation. Starting with the idea of Tolkien’s world as kosmos (an object of beauty), the article proceeds with a comparative analysis of some roles music plays in Classical thought and Tolkien’s legendarium: namely, a) a cosmogonic and cosmological force; b) a source of influence and magic; and c) a means of salvation. Particular attention is paid to Plato’s Sirens and Fates, as represented in the Myth of Er, in comparison to Tolkien’s Maiar, Ainur, and their influence on the fate of the world.

Artykuły naukowe

Autoreferencyjność w dwóch baśniach europejskich: w „Oślej Skórce” Charlesa Perraulta i w „O głupim, co ożeniuł się z królowną i został królem” (baśń polska)
Anne-Marie Monluçon

Baśniowe herstory. Postmodernistyczne strategie reinterpretacyjne Angeli Carter, Tanith Lee i Emmy Donoghue
Weronika Kostecka

Postmodernistyczny retelling baśni — garść uwag terminologicznych
Maciej Skowera

Czytać wciąż na nowo. Kilka słów o baśniach w świecie wiedźmina
Karolina Zastępska

Recenzje naukowe

O umarłych, którzy podróżują szybko (rec. W górach przeklętych)
Agnieszka Bukowczan-Rzeszut

Rozmowa numeru

Groza w nieco innej odsłonie
Katarzyna Slany, Ksenia Olkusz

Litterrarium

Ośla skórka. Baśń, przekł. Szczepan Całek
Charles Perrault

Podróże z Królową Śniegu, przekł. Piotr Zawada
Kelly Link

Mróz
Anna Grzanek

Dwie i pół wiedźmy
Marcin Majchrzak

Polana Młodego Słońca
Grzegorz Skowyra

Cena wolności
Anna Szumacher

Artykuły naukowe:
Urban fantasy — literatura Niewidocznego
Stefan Ekman (przekł. Magdalena Wąsowicz)

Wokół definicji fantastyki miejskiej
Sarai Mannolini-Winwood (przekł. Krzysztof M. Maj)

Miasta kanibalistyczne. Poczwarne ciała miejskie we współczesnej fantasy
Elana Gomel (przekł. Ksenia Olkusz)

Definiując urban fantasy i romans paranormalny. Przekraczanie granic gatunków, mediów, a także siebie i innych w nowych nadprzyrodzonych światach
Leigh McLennon (przekł. Ksenia Olkusz)

Meloniki i rewolwery albo utopiec na bicyklu. O (retro)industrialnej adaptacji konwencji urban fantasy
Konrad Zielonka

Inny Zagrzeb. Transformacje obrazu miasta w chorwackiej prozie fantastycznej po 1991 roku
Aleksandra Wojtaszek

Fantastyczny tygiel. Synkretyzm gatunkowy i kulturowy w cyklu urban fantasy Bena Aaronovitcha Rzeki Londynu
Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Społeczeństwo, jednostka i obcość w kontekście nowoczesności i płynnej nowoczesności. Analiza The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro inspirowana myślą Zygmunta Baumana
Wiktor Magdziarz

Późne lato Johna Crowleya jako postmodernistyczna wizja procesualnej koncepcji tożsamości
Magdalena Gancarczyk

Rozmowa numeru:
Literatura Niewidocznego — wizje i rewizje urban fantasy
Stefan Ekman, Audrey Taylor, Sylwia Borowska-Szerszu, Krzysztof M. Maj, Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk

Recenzje naukowe:
Siódma przechadzka po lesie fikcji. O książce Między światami Piotra Stasiewicza i badaniach nad fantastyką po zwrocie postmodernistycznym (rec. Piotr Stasiewicz, Między światami. Intertekstualność i postmodernizm w literaturze fantasy)
Krzysztof M. Maj

Krwawe łzy wampirów (rec. Oblicza wampiryzmu, red. Anna Depta, Robert Dudziński, Michał Wolski)
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk

Litterrarium:
Egzogamia
John Crowley (przekł. Aleksandra Weksej)

Łaskotki Przedśmierci
Adam Stanisław Barcikowski

Ten pociąg nie odjedzie
Anna Wołosiak-Tomaszewska

Szczur
Marcin Jamiołkowski

Ratunek Jerycho
Kamila Modrzyńska

Skorupa
Jacek Jarecki

O tym, jak nieomal powstrzymałem Szkarłatnego Króla
Elliot Star (oprac. Wiktoria Król)

Pieśń koguta
Michał Łukowiak

Któż jest jak Bóg
Luiza Leszczyńska

Lalka
Katarzyna Kubacka

Miasto utracenia
Pafnucy Rzeszutko

Виклики українського перекладу та теоретичні аспекти дослідження літератури фентезі. Збірник матеріалів наукових семінарів Центру з Дослідження Літератури Фентезі при Інституті літератури ім. Т. Г. Шевченка НАН України (26 листопада 2019, 8 січня 2021) / Ред. Рязанцева Т. М., Канчура Є. О., Тихомирова О. В. – Київ, 2021. – 115 с.
Abstracts (in English)
Riazantseva T. M., Kanchura Y. O., Tykhomyrova O. V. (Eds.) (2021) Challenges of Ukrainian Translation and Theoretical Aspects of Fantasy Literature Studies.
Materials of Academic Seminars of the Centre for
Fantasy Literature Studies at Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (November 26, 2019, January 8, 2021).
Tykhomyrova O. V.
The British Code in Fantasy Fiction as a Translation Challenge
The paper addresses strategies of foreignization / domestication as applied in the
translation of fantasy fiction. The presence of Britishness in a fantasy world is
analyzed with regard to its domesticating or defamiliarizing effect, both of which
problematize the choice of translation strategies. The issue is traced in the British
fantasy novel “Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and its Ukrainian
translation of 2018.
Key words: Britishness, defamiliarization, domestication, fantasy, foreignization,
translation.
Melnyk D. М.
The functioning of the onyms in the fantasy literature
and their translation
The paper focuses on the types and functioning of onyms in fantasy literature, as well
as on the peculiarities of their translation into Ukrainian. Two modern German novels
written by K. Funke and W. Moers are taken as a basis. Onyms are assumed as one of
the important instruments of constructing a fictional world, because they create a
reference allusion and make the reader believe in the "reality" of the fantasy world.
The paper deals basically with translation of characters’ names.
Keywords: fantasy literature, translation, onym, fictional world, referential illusion,
Cornelia Funke, Walter Moеrs.
Legeza S. V.
A translator between “betrayal” and “victory”: the reader cultural
competencies and reconfigurations of popular culture
The article deals with the extra-literary factors affecting the translator’s work. Some
of these factors result from the fandom (the active part of the pop culture consumers),
social network discussions and the transformation of an active reader’s role from an
object to the subject of the interaction with the text. The named factors and their
impact on the translator’s work are specific for Ukraine. One of the most challenging
issues are the need of re-translation and the dominance of Russian-language books at
the Ukrainian market, as well as the necessity of changes in the publishing policy.
Key words: fantasy, fandom, readers’ audience
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Nazarenko M. Y.
“Whether you know all that is to be known concerning small mirrors?”
What and how to comment in fantasy translation
The paper focuses on the issue of commenting on fantasy literary works based on
modern publishing practice in Ukraine and abroad. It discusses the main types of
comments, the choice of what should be commented with regard to the target
audience, etc. The specifics of various subgenres of fantasy in this aspect are
indicated.
Key words: commentary, intertext, intention of the text, ideal author and ideal reader
Stuzhuk O. V.
An Editor: between a Reader and a Translator.
The author shares some reflections based on her experience in editing of the
speculative fiction texts.
Key words: editor, translator, reader, writng.
Stasiuk B. V.
Revision of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Works. Problem of the Final Version Reception
The paper dwells on the research which covers the issue of the literary translation
consecutive revisions reception by the Ukrainian readers. The subject of the research
is the highly appreciated fantasy novel The Tombs of Atuan by an outstanding
American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The paper highlights both positive and negative
trends in revision process, discusses possible reasons of their appearance and their
regulative effect upon the recipient.
Keywords: fantasy, translation, revision, reception.
Paglieri L.
Tolkien in Italy
In Italy Tolkien became a sort of “political case” in the Seventies. He was much
loved by right-wing intellectuals and readers and often criticized by left -wing public
opinion. Nowadays a new translation (published in 2019-2020) arouses again a great
In Italy Tolkien became a sort of “political case” in the Seventies. He was much
loved by right-wing intellectuals and readers and often criticized by left -wing public
opinion. Nowadays a new translation (published in 2019-2020) arouses again a great
deal of controversy. deal of controversy.
Keywords: J. R. R. Tolkien in Italy, politic, translation
Tykhomyrova O. V.
The Sacred in the Metagenre of Fantasy
The paper dwells on the notion of the sacred, outlining its theoretical scope within
literary studies and focusing on its manifestation in the metagenre of fantasy. The
opposition of the sacred and the profane is viewed as an integral component of
secondary world-building. Major ways of showcasing the sacred in the fantasy world,
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as well as the function of the hierophany, are elucidated with the help of instances
drawn from J. R. R. Tolkien’s alternative mythology, particularly the motif of food
consumption.
Key words: fantasy, food, hierophany, profane, quest, secondary world, sacred.
Astrakhan N. I.
J. K. Rolling’s Series of Novels about Harry Potter: at the Crossroads of
Utopia and Dystopia.
The article focuses on possible vectors of the effect that the fantasy world picture has
on its recipients, its ability to express existential meanings, to solve moral and
philosophical problems of general cultural significance. Considering the polymetagenre syncretism inherent in J. К. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the interaction
of utopian and dystopian tendencies within the functioning of universal socio-cultural
forms is regarded as one of the key features of postmodern fantasy.
Key words: fantasy fiction, metagenre, artistic picture of the world, utopia, dystopia.
Filonenko O. G.
Tomm Moore's Celtic Fantasy
The paper discusses the animated films of the Irish filmmaker, animator, illustrator
and comic artist Tomm Moore as a specimen of the Celtic fantasy genre. Celtic
fantasy heavily draws on Celtic (Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and Breton) myth and
folklore. In his Oscar-nominated animated films The Secret of Kells (2009), Song of
the Sea (2014), and Wolfwalkers (2020), Tomm Moore creates an original secondary
world which is the combination of the Irish historical or contemporary situation and
the Otherworld inhabited by fairies, sidhe, selkies and wolfwalkers. In his films, he
researches the relationship between human and non-human, the wild and the
civilized, Irish culture and foreign cultures, the country and the city, children and
adults/parents; he stresses the importance of the preservation of the old lore and
knowledge and the necessity to keep the balance between nature and civilisation.
Through his artistic synthesis, he seeks to promote a new, more harmonious Irish
identity.
Keywords: animation, Celtic fantasy, Celtic studies, Irish folklore
Kanchura Y. O.
Terms Introduced by Fantasy Writers: Usage in Academic Context
While developing the theoretical base of fantasy literature studies the scholars face
the lack of special terms related to several important aspects of fantasy literature.
Meanwhile, prominent fantasy writers, in their essays as well as in their works of
fiction, create a number of terms to describe the key laws of fantasy reality (such as
secondary belief, inner consistency of reality coined by J. R. R. Tolkien, narrative
causality, white knowledge offered by Terry Pratchett, etc.). The paper aims at
discussing the possibility to use writers’ terms in academic research and to correlate
them with academic vocabulary and to integrate them into it.
Keywords: fantasy literature studies, trope, term, secondary world

Compendium
Dlaczego pytamy „Co by było, gdyby…?”. Uwagi na temat funkcji historii alternatywnej (przekł. Magdalena Wąsowicz)
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

Między historią a fantazją. Mediewalizm i głos kobiet w „Pieśni dla Arbonne” Guya Guvriela Kaya
Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun

Historia iterowalna w „Maszynie różnicowej. Williama Gibsona i Bruce’a Sterlinga (przekł. Krzysztof M. Maj)
Julia Gerhard

Impuls kontrfaktyczny a pamięć kulturowa. Historie alternatywne jako narodowe imaginarium
Magdalena Górecka

Powstanie styczniowe i polityka pamięci. „Orzeł bielszy niż gołębica” Konrada T. Lewandowskiego i „Gambit Wielopolskiego” Adama Przechrzty
Magdalena Wąsowicz

Biały steampunk – dwa oblicza carskiej Rosji. „Lód” Jacka Dukaja i cykl opowiadań o doktorze Skórzewskim Andrzeja Pilipiuka
Tomasz Ryrych

„After Dachau” Daniela Quinna. Odpominanie Holokaustu: afekt, pobudzenie, transkrypta
Natalia Lemann

„Obrócić się przeciw czasowi”. Opowieści alternatywne a wzorcowe wizje przeszłości historycznej na przykładzie wybranych komiksów polskich okresu PRL-u
Marcin Jaworski

Symbolika zła w cyklu „Ziemiomorze” Ursuli K Le Guin
Mateusz Tokarski

Concilium
Granica możliwości
Magdalena Łachacz

Archipelagi historii alternatywnej
Magdalena Wąsowicz

Colloquium
Allohistorie i kontrfaktyczności (przekł. Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, Mateusz Tokarski)
Natalia Lemann, Karen Hellekson, Susan Johnston, Gavriel Rosenfeld,
Krzysztof M. Maj, Magdalena Wąsowicz

Litterrarium
Demon i jego chłopiec
Łukasz Skoneczny

Dies Natalis
Izabela Gryca

Badania terenowe
Radosław Dąbrowski

Śmierć Che Guevary (przekł. Aleksandra Weksej)
Lewis Shiner

Lot bez lądowania
Grzegorz Wielgus

Wulkanizacja (przekł. Mateusz Tokarski)
Nisi Shawl

Błędne ognie
Michał Czajkowski

Cenzor
Michał Pięta

Antonia chce spać
Agnieszka Fulińska

Puella fabra. Dziennik roku 1717
Barbara Kaczyńska

Tragedia Lady albo apokryf Gruoch
Adrian Turzański