Enduring Fantastic

Essays on Imagination and Western Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-11
Mått150 x 224 x 15 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476680125

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Anna Höglund is a senior lecturer in comparative literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research areas are horror fiction and fantastic fiction in literature and film with a focal point on the functions of monsters like vampires, zombies and werewolves, as instrumental interpretations of the world. Cecilia Trenter is a senior lecturer in history at Malmö University, Sweden. She works within the research field of memory studies and public history, including heritage adaptions and remediation in fiction, for instance epic films and computer-games.

Table of ContentsPrefaceAnna Höglund and Cecilia TrenterIntroductionAnna Höglund and Cecilia TrenterThe Use of the Fantastic in a Historical PerspectiveDragons and Kingdoms: Political Authority and Fantasy in the Histories of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Saxo GrammaticusHans HägerdalEgyptian Mummies, Medicine and the Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century SwedenJoachim ÖstlundA Double-Edged Sword: Promises and Dangers of Hypnotism in Sweden, 1880–1915Cecilia RivingThe Use of the Fantastic and Fantastika in Contemporary CultureA Friend and Foe: The Portrayal of Otherness and Disease in Vampire FictionAnna HöglundPriestesses of Avalon: Fantasy Fiction and Contemporary Goddess WorshipÅsa TrulssonDwarfs Are Not Religious, Sir! Gradually Reclining Dwarven Irreligion in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld UniverseJonas SvenssonBringing Dragons Back into the World: Dismantling the Anthropocene in Robin Hobb’s The Realm of the ElderlingsMariah LarssonOur World Is Dew: Tor Åge Bringsværd’s Fable Prose as a Chthulucenic ExplorationMarit Ruge Bjærke and Kyrre KverndokkThe Use of the Fantastic and Fantastika in Memory Culture“And this is how I tried to fathom the Lindenborg Pool”: William Morris, Medievalism and ModernityPer KlingbergFairy Tales Transformed: Analyzing a New Wave of Feminist Retellings of Fairy TalesMaria NilsonRemediation of Cultural Memory in the Dragon Age Videogame SeriesCecilia TrenterFallout, Memory and Values: The Uses of History and Time in a Fantasy-Driven VideogameDerek FewsterAbout the ContributorsIndex

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