Fantasy: The fantastic-wonderful mainstream heir

Fantasy is a literary genre which origin goes back to the traditional fantastic and the wonderful. The wonderful, in the classic definition by Todorov, is the fantastic accepted. Both the traditional fantastic and the wonderful finds some reader’s resistance due to the unusual that exists in the fan...

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Autor: da Cunha Correia, Fernanda
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM)
Repositorio:Cadernos de pós graduação em letras (Online)
Idioma:portugués
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Acceso en línea:https://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/cpgl/article/view/14272
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Palabra clave:fantasia
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Sumario:Fantasy is a literary genre which origin goes back to the traditional fantastic and the wonderful. The wonderful, in the classic definition by Todorov, is the fantastic accepted. Both the traditional fantastic and the wonderful finds some reader’s resistance due to the unusual that exists in the fantastic narrative and makes the reader disrupt the reality. The fantasy is even more complex since it needs an entirely new world, build from the author’s imagination, and, because of this characteristic, makes the reader even more participative. However, the readers and fans of this genre acknowledge these features and embrace them, understanding that as essential to the experience of reading and making Fantasy a pop culture phenomenon nowadays.