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The Enduring Fantastic - Essays on Imagination and Western Culture (Paperback)
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The Enduring Fantastic - Essays on Imagination and Western Culture (Paperback)
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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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