AESTHETIC MERITS AND FORMAL EXPERIMENTS IN SECONDARY WORLD FANTASY

Authors

  • Grzegorz Trębicki Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/LL.1.2020.004

Keywords

fantasy, walory artystyczne fantasy, Patricia McKillip, teoria fantastyki

Abstract

The secondary world fantasy is quite justifiably regarded by scholars and critics as one
of the most schematic, repetitive and commercial genres of contemporary non-mimetic
literature. The present paper undertakes a preliminary discussion whether (and to what
extent) this genre includes texts in which one can clearly discern a specifically understood
aesthetic function (and whether this function can become a text’s structural dominant).
The article also addresses the question whether various formal experiments are possible
in this kind of literature.

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Literatura Ludowa. Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture

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Published

2020-09-13

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TRĘBICKI, Grzegorz. AESTHETIC MERITS AND FORMAL EXPERIMENTS IN SECONDARY WORLD FANTASY. Literatura Ludowa. Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture. Online. 13 September 2020. Vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 39-48. [Accessed 8 January 2025]. DOI 10.12775/LL.1.2020.004.

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Vol. 64 No. 1 (2020): Literatura Ludowa

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