Exploring imaginary worlds : essays on media, structure, and subcreation /: essays on media, structure, and subcreation. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mark J.P. Wolf.
• Editors: Wolf, Mark J. P
• Contents: List of Contributors Foreword Scott Adams Acknowledgments Introduction Mark J. P. Wolf WORLDS OF WORDS The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg: Subcreation and Social Criticism Lars Konzack ‘A Little Bit of England Which I Have Myself Created’: Creating Barsetshire across Forms, Genres, Time, and Authors Helen Conrad O’Briain Mythopoetic Suspense, Eschatology and Misterium: World-Building Lessons from Dostoevsky Lily Alexander Building the Vorkosigan Universe Edward James AUDIOVISUAL WORLDS Our World: World-Building in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Mark J. P. Wolf "Suckled On Shadows": States of Decay in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Novels Edward O’Hare The Gothic World-Building of Dark Shadows Andrew Higgins Daventry and the Worlds of King’s Quest Christopher Hanson TRANSMEDIA WORLDS The Softer Side of Dune : The Impact of Social Sciences on World-Building Kara Kennedy Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Balance and Interconnectivity in the Fractured Worlds of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s The Death Gate Cycle Jennifer Harwood-Smith Welcome to the "Second-stage" Lynchverse – Twin Peaks: The Return and the Impossibility of Return Vs. Getting a Return Matt Hills The Fault in Our Star Trek : (Dis)Continuity Mapping, Textual Conservationism, and the Perils of Prequelization William Proctor Appendix: On Measuring and Comparing Imaginary Worlds Mark J. P. Wolf
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 801.92; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Imaginary societies in literature; Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429516061; 9780429512636; 9780429519499; 9780429242915
• Related ISBNs: 9780367197308
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