The Middle Ages and Popular Culture Ser.: Fantasy Aesthetics : Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020 by Joseph Imorde (2025, Trade Paperback)

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Fantasy Aesthetics: Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020 (The Middle Ages and Popular Culture) [Paperback]

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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

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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.