Exploring Imaginary Worlds
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Exploring Imaginary Worlds

Essays on Media, Structure, and Subcreation

Mark J.P. Wolf, Mark J.P. Wolf

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Exploring Imaginary Worlds

Essays on Media, Structure, and Subcreation

Mark J.P. Wolf, Mark J.P. Wolf

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From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary.

Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, each essay looks at a particular imaginary world in-depth, and world-building issues associated with that world. Together, the essays explore the relationship between the worlds and the media in which they appear as they examine imaginary worlds in literature, television, film, computer games, and theatre, with many existing across multiple media simultaneously. The book argues that the media incarnation of a world affects world structure and poses unique obstacles to the act of world-building. The worlds discussed include Nazar, Barsetshire, Skotopogonievsk, the Vorkosigan Universe, Grover's Corners, Gormenghast, Collinsport, Daventry, Dune, the Death Gate Cycle universe, Twin Peaks, and the Star Trek galaxy.

A follow-up to Mark J. P. Wolf 's field-defining book Building Imaginary Worlds, this collection will be of critical interest to students and scholars of popular culture, subcreation studies, transmedia studies, literature, and beyond.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9780429516061
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Collezioni letterarie

Index

  • Abarrach 179, 184; see also world of stone
  • ABC Television Network 120
  • Abrams, J. J. 207, 214ā€“215
  • Academy Awards 97
  • Ackerman, Forrest J. 134
  • ā€œAcquisitionā€ (TV episode) 212ā€“213
  • Adams, Scott xvi
  • Adventure #1 ā€” Adventureland xvi
  • Adventure #2 ā€” Pirate Adventure xvi
  • Adventure #3 ā€” Secret Mission xvi
  • Adventure #4 ā€” Voodoo Castle xvi
  • Adventure #5 ā€” The Count xvi
  • Adventure #6 ā€” Strange Odyssey xvi
  • Adventure #7 ā€” Mystery Fun House xvi
  • Adventure #8 ā€” Pyramid of Doom xvi
  • Adventure #9 ā€” Ghost Town xvi
  • Adventure #10 ā€” Savage Island, Part I xvi
  • Adventure #11 ā€” Savage Island, Part II xvi
  • Adventure #12 ā€” Golden Voyage xvi
  • Adventure #13 ā€” Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle xvi
  • Adventure #14 ā€” Return to Pirateā€™s Isle xvi
  • Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) 146ā€“147
  • Adventure International xvi, 138
  • Adventure/ADVENT 138
  • Adventureland xvi
  • Adventureland XL xvi
  • aes...

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