| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Here Be DRAGONS; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. INTRODUCTION; The Relevance of Settings; What Is Fantasy?; 2. MAPS; Previous Explorations of Fantasy Maps; What Is a Fantasy Map?; A Survey of Fantasy Maps; Reading Fantasy Maps; 3. BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES; Together Apart: Borders in Brust, Gaiman and Vess, and Nix; The Geography of History: Polders in Tolkien, Holdstock, and Pratchett; 4. NATURE AND CULTURE; Two Slippery Terms; The Return of the Tree: Bringing Nature Back into Minas Tirith; Nature, Magic, and Misfits: Wilderness within Newford. |
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Blurred Boundaries: Conflux in New CrobuzonGrowing Somewhere In-Between: Liminal Nature in Ombria; 5. REALMS AND RULERS; Linking Rulers to Realms: An Overview; Ruling the Mythical Landscape: The Fisher King in Last Call; Shaping the Realm: Palimpsests in Tourists; Where Dark Lords Live: Landscapes of Evil in Tolkien, Donaldson, and Jordan; 6. SOME FINAL THOUGHTS; Appendix A: Method for the Map Survey; Appendix B: Map Sample; Notes; Bibliography; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR. |
| Summary |
First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literature. |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism.
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Landscapes in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst00920710
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Landscapes in literature. (OCoLC)fst01899802
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Fantastisk litteratur -- historia.
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Landskap i litteraturen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780819573223 0819573221 (DLC) 2012034770 |
| ISBN |
0819573248 (electronic bk.) |
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9780819573247 (electronic bk.) |
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