EARTHSEA AND THE FANTASY TRADITION
| Autor: | John Plotz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
| Zdroj: | Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea ISBN: 0192847880 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780192847881.003.0002 |
| Popis: | This chapter is a scholar’s journey through the century of speculative fiction that precedes Earthsea. Although an unproductive faceoff between Christian and Marxist accounts of fantasy has proven surprisingly dominant among scholars, I take a different way in. That means exploring the implicit (and at times explicit) debate between J. R. R. Tolkien’s notion of fantasy novels as self-contained “secondary worlds” and Samuel Delany’s opposing vision of fantasy as intimately and complexly linked to our shared world. The tension between those two standpoints brought me back to Le Guin, who offers a new way to think about fantasy’s distinctive role in our technology-filled world: what the poet Yeats called “the cry of the heart against necessity.” E. M. Forster’s speculative stories and his novel Where Angels Fear to Tread form one important stepping-stone. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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