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Description: Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy science fiction and horror. Expanding on this understanding these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies gender studies biology ethnology archeology history religion game studies cultural sociology and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle mummy medicine in eighteenth - century Sweden how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West ecocentrism in fantasy fiction how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage and more.
Title: The Enduring Fantastic Essays On Imagination And Western Culture
Brand: Mcfarland & Co Inc
Barcode: 9781476680125
Pages: 232 Pages, Notes, Bibliographies, Index
Publication Date: 6/11/2021
Category: Popular Culture
Description: Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy science fiction and horror. Expanding on this understanding these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies gender studies biology ethnology archeology history religion game studies cultural sociology and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle mummy medicine in eighteenth - century Sweden how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West ecocentrism in fantasy fiction how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage and more.
Title: The Enduring Fantastic Essays On Imagination And Western Culture
Brand: Mcfarland & Co Inc
Barcode: 9781476680125
Pages: 232 Pages, Notes, Bibliographies, Index
Publication Date: 6/11/2021
Category: Popular Culture
