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Fantasy Aesthetics: Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020
[Sammelwerk]
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Abstract Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons ... mehr
Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons and mages follow mythical archetypes and develop pictorial aesthetics of fantasy, completed by gothic fonts, maps and page layout that refer to medieval manuscripts and chronicles. The contributors to this volume explore the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Literatur; Medien; Popkultur; Mythos; Bild; Mittelalter
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
Fantasy; Iconography; Pictorial Aesthetics; Literary Studies; Visual Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2024
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
264 S.
Schriftenreihe
The Middle Ages and Popular Culture, 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470589
ISSN
2703-1179
ISBN
978-3-8394-7058-9
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0