{"product_id":"fantasy-adam-roberts","title":"Fantasy (Adam Roberts)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to arrive at our understanding of the fantastic today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pinning the evolution of fantasy on three key moments - the 19th-century resurgence of interest in Arthurian legend, the rise of Christian allegory, and a post-Ossian, post-Grimm emergence of a Norse, Germanic and Old English mythic identity - Roberts explores how the logic of 'the fantastical' feeds through into the sets and trappings of modern fantasy. Tracking the creation of heroic and high fantasy subgenres through antiquarian tradition, through C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and into the post-Tolkien boom in genre fantasy writing, the book brings the manifestation of the fantastic beyond literature into art, music, film and TV, video games and other cultural productions such as fandoms. From Tennyson and Wagner, through Robert Graves, David Jones, Samuel Delany, \u003ci\u003eDungeons and Dragons\u003c\/i\u003e, Terry Pratchett and Robin Hobb, to the \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSkyrim\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Witcher\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings \u003c\/i\u003emedia franchises, the book digs into the global dissemination and diversity of 21st-century fantasy. Accessible and dynamic, wide-ranging but comprehensive, this is a crash-course in context for the most imaginative form of storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAdam Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, critic and scholar.  He is the author of 12 science fiction novels and stories, which have been nominated for and won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke award, The British Science Fiction Association award, the John W. Campbell award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle, and he has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, he has published numerous scholarly works such as \u003ci\u003eThe History of Science Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and \u003ci\u003eThe Riddles of the Hobbit\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 296 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65838032978269,"sku":"K097738234","price":21.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9773823400001A.jpg?v=1788739778","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/fantasy-adam-roberts","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}