Exploring imaginary worlds : essays on media, structure, and subcreation /: essays on media, structure, and subcreation. (2020)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Exploring imaginary worlds : essays on media, structure, and subcreation /: essays on media, structure, and subcreation. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Exploring imaginary worlds : essays on media, structure, and subcreation
- 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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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.548441
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