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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherTranscript Verlag
ISBN-103837670589
ISBN-139783837670585
eBay Product ID (ePID)26068805558
Product Key Features
Number of Pages264 Pages
Publication NameFantasy Aesthetics : Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
SubjectGeneral, Popular Culture
TypeTextbook
AuthorJoseph Imorde
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
SeriesThe Middle Ages and Popular Culture Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Table Of ContentFrontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Introduction: Fantasy between Text and Image 9 Aesthetics without Pictures? 23 The Visual Realization of Fantastic Worlds in Book Cover Design 37 Beautiful and Sublime - and Never Mind the Pointed Ears 51 Visualizing the Never-Seen 81 The Fantasy Novel as Commodity 121 Medievalist Aesthetics and Marketing Strategies 143 William Morris's Medievalist Visual Aesthetics and its Persistence in Fantasy 175 Unicorns in Contemporary Popular Culture 205 Fantasy Medievalism 217 Reception of Medieval Literature in Science Fiction Series 239 Biobibliographical Information 261
SynopsisFantasy 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., This book explores 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.