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New Wine in Old Bottles
New Wine in Old Bottles
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Fantasy, folklore and myth: a short exercise in classification Approaches to myth in Maguires writing Re-writing existing folklore: examples from Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked with of the West and Mirror, Mirror Conclusions: New Myth?
A Note on Fantasy
Kevin Crossley-Hollard Angela Carter Neil Gaiman Bill Willingham Lloyd Alexander Susan Cooper Kate Thomson J. R. R. Tolkien Susanna Clarke Terry Pratchet
A Note on Fantasy
A literary genre An illusion or hallucination The desire for an unobtainable object A product of the imagination, a figment or fiction A supposition resting on no solid grounds An artistic mode
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Mirror, Mirror
Fantasy resists, and indeed mocks, the elaborate classification systems of academia that have grown up around it, just as it defies the view that its huge popularity is a sad reflection on the state of contemporary culture. Peter Hunt, Alternative worlds in Fantasy Fiction