EN 3174 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: J. R. R. Tolkien, Animal Stories, Federally Administered Tribal Areas
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Le(cid:449)is" the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Inversions/subversions: the way the author inverts/subverts language for formal and informal, human world as bad, animal world as good. I(cid:374)tro to childre(cid:374)"s fa(cid:374)tas(cid:455) literature: origins and history. Largely developed in the past 2 centuries (19th century with lewis carroll and grows into the 20th century with jrr. Primary features of magic and the supernatural, creatures, unexplained phenomenon. Seen in legends, medieval history, fairy tales, gothic literature. The pervasive nature of magic makes it difficult to find the starting point for fantasy. Rooted in myth, legend and folklore; all three are doing something different than what modern fantasy does. Fantasy deals with the impossible while the three listed are rooted in history; shaped by religious or cultural belief. Myths meld together a representational system of religious belief, fantastic and have impossible things but are also believed in. Legend even more rooted in history (king arthur) despite fighting dragons and the existence of merlin.
