The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media
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The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media

The Nature of Fantasy

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eBook - ePub

The Ecological Imaginary in Literature and Other Media

The Nature of Fantasy

About this book

From Gilgamesh to Gawain and the Green Knight, the Brothers Grimm to Grimdark, the natural world has provided the backdrop for Fantasy since its earliest iterations. The playgrounds of childhood are often a writer's first Fantasy landscape and can develop into fully fledged storyworlds. Do readers of Fantasy seek out the genre for a taste of this unsullied environment? Is it nostalgia for the lost Edens of childhood, a way to escape, or to find resilience and inspiration? And in a time of Climate Emergency, is the nature of Fantasy changing to reflect the challenges it presents? Can the blue-sky thinking of the Fantastic provide us with a useful tool for addressing what the United Nations has called 'the defining crisis of our time'? This is a timely survey of the environmental aspects of Fantasy, with a unique focus on Fantasy sites and the real-world impact of Fantasy texts across media.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040439982
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism & Nature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Fantastical Meditations
  8. 1 Early Fantasy: Green Knights and Faerie Queens
  9. 2 Childrenā€™s Fantasy: The Mythopoeic Landscapes of Childhood
  10. 3 Epic Fantasy: Portals, Paradises, and Wastelands
  11. 4 Urban Fantasy: The Re-Enchantment of the City
  12. 5 21st-Century Fantasyā€”Fantastic Ecologies in the Capitalocene
  13. 6 Mapping the Fantastic: The Ethics of Placiality, Architectonics, and Speculative Cartography
  14. 7 Fantasy Sites: Fantasy Texts and Their Real-World Impact
  15. Conclusion: The Le Guin Index and Other Interventions
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index