EN201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lewis Carroll, Low Fantasy, Didacticism
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Potential of language and storytelling to create unique worlds. An awareness of the inexplicable existence of magic in the everyday world, a yearning for a sudden glimpse of something strange and wonderful (temple 350) Fantasy is used to intensify or illuminate reality, not to distort it [and offers] a different and perhaps truer version of reality (sheila egoff) Emphasis on reason and logic (fantasy reflects reality) It can"t be so far off from the reality that it was unrecognizable. Ex, in alice"s adventures in wonderland, she made references to the reality world, she (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:396)e(cid:272)all to he(cid:396) lesso(cid:374)s he(cid:396) lea(cid:396)(cid:374)ed i(cid:374) (cid:396)eal (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld (cid:271)ut they do(cid:374)"t help. Borrows more generously from the world in which we live. Characters live primarily in this world but have unusual experiences that suggest fantasy or magic or are unusual characters with magical qualities. Usually set in a different world (ex, distant plant, imagined future world, or other imagined place beyond present reality)
