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| author | Donahue, Nannette Wargo |
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| contents | The City Fantastic Donahue, Nannette Wargo Fantasy Urban Environment Books Library Services Since ancient times, the supernatural has captivated storytellers and their audiences. Some of the earliest surviving literary forms--myths and folktales--feature such preternatural beings as gods, ghosts, fairies, witches, or vampires living among humans. Today, this fascination exists in the current boom in urban fantasy, a genre defined by John Clute and John Grant in their "Encyclopedia of Fantasy" (1997) as "texts where fantasy and the mundane world interact, intersect, and interweave throughout a take which is significantly about a real city." Most urban fantasies are released as mass-market or trade paperbacks and most of them are published as part of a series. This article recommends several titles for urban fantasy books. (Contains 2 online resources.) |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2008 |
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| spellingShingle | The City Fantastic Donahue, Nannette Wargo Fantasy Urban Environment Books Library Services The City Fantastic Donahue, Nannette Wargo Fantasy Urban Environment Books Library Services Since ancient times, the supernatural has captivated storytellers and their audiences. Some of the earliest surviving literary forms--myths and folktales--feature such preternatural beings as gods, ghosts, fairies, witches, or vampires living among humans. Today, this fascination exists in the current boom in urban fantasy, a genre defined by John Clute and John Grant in their "Encyclopedia of Fantasy" (1997) as "texts where fantasy and the mundane world interact, intersect, and interweave throughout a take which is significantly about a real city." Most urban fantasies are released as mass-market or trade paperbacks and most of them are published as part of a series. This article recommends several titles for urban fantasy books. (Contains 2 online resources.) |
| title | The City Fantastic |
| topic | Fantasy Urban Environment Books Library Services |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ798707 |