Heroic Fantasy
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Recent papers in Heroic Fantasy
Study guide from 2002 for advanced undergraduates studying John Gardner's GRENDEL: the BEOWULF story from the (less) monstrous point of view. Possibly also of interest as a response to GRENDEL by someone from Gardner's initial audience.
0. Fantasy: Why Bother?; 1. Some Preconditions for Approaching Fantasy; 2. On What Fantastic Fiction Is Not; 3. In medias res: The Genres of Ahistorical Alternative Worlds; 4. Some Dilemmas on Uses and Values of Fantasy.
La saga des Chevaucheurs du Vent est née indépendamment d'une relation consciente à François Brousse, auquel ce nouveau colloque rend une nouvelle fois hommage. Elle s'est inscrite de prime abord dans une perspective anthroposophique. Le... more
Romania is not so far away, but it is such a long way to go there and for Romania to come here. They are in Europe with all the other romance-language countries of Europe, but it has not adopted the Euro - YET??? - but Serban Enache has a... more
Published in Vincent Ferré (ed.). 2010. Médiévalisme. Modernité du Moyen Âge. Paris: L’Harmattan, 61-71. Abstract: The (popularly conceived) Middle Ages and (heroic) fantasy share a number of characteristics, such as settings in... more
Paper presented at Section 18 (YA). Ursula K. Le Guin: Earthsea and Elsewhere. At the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Fantasy in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 20-24 March 2002. Donzi Room, Thursday, 21 March.
The protagonist or, perhaps, more properly, ―the hero, regardless in what sort of categories we are going to speak about him/her (popular, anthropological, critical or genological), appears as one of the key ele-ments of the modern... more
HISTORIA, LEYENDA Y MITO EN LA RECONSTRUCCIÓN ALEJANDRINA DE LION OF MACEDON, DE DAVID GEMMELL Verónica Rafaelli CELYC-IdIHCS-UNLP 2011 Artículo publicado en Revista Digilenguas, Año III, N.º 10, diciembre de 2011. Facultad de... more