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Walory estetyczne i eksperymenty formalne w fantasy świata wtórnego
Aesthetic Merits and Formal Experiments in Secondary World Fantasy

Author(s): Grzegorz Trębicki
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
Keywords: fantasy; artistic values of fantasy; Patricia McKillip; fantasy theory

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

  • Issue Year: 64/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 39-48
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish