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Fantasy Aesthetics: Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020

Fantasy Aesthetics: Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020

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Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3837670589
ISBN13: 9783837670585
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: Jan 7 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fantasy 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.

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