Other Worlds The Fantasy Genre |
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| Author:
| Timmerman, John H. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87972-241-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1983 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Imprint: | Popular Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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Fantasy permits its readers a certain distance from pragmatic affairs and offers them a clearer insight into them. It offers a parallel reality, which gives us a renewed awareness of what we already know. Fantasy invites the reader to recover a belief which has been beclouded by knowledge, to renew a faith which has been shattered by fact. As the pace of modern life quickens, the fascination for fantasy literature quickens simultaneously.
Fantasy permits its readers a certain distance from pragmatic affairs and offers them a clearer insight into them. It offers a parallel reality, which gives us a renewed awareness of what we already know. Fantasy invites the reader to recover a belief which has been beclouded by knowledge, to renew a faith which has been shattered by fact. As the pace of modern life quickens, the fascination for fantasy literature quickens simultaneously.