Here be dragons : exploring fantasy maps and settings / Stefan Ekman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekman, Stefan, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction.

Landscapes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

First in-depth study of the use of landscape in fantasy literature

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780819573247

0819573248

OCLC:

854970704