Fantasy Aesthetics Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Populäres Mittelalter Series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009842836106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Fantasy between Text and Image
- 1. Literature and Visible Presentation
- 2. Fantasy Aesthetic(s): Some Perspectives
- 3. Contributions
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Aesthetics without Pictures?
- 1. Illustration as Fashion
- 2. Quantity: Pictures en masse
- 3. Infantilization: the Immature Audience
- 4. Fantasy: Endangering the Power of the Imagination
- Bibliography
- The Visual Realization of Fantastic Worlds in Book Cover Design
- 1. Representations of Landscapes
- 2. Representations of People/Heroes
- 2.1 The Significance of the Mainstream in the Representation of Characters in Fantasy Literature
- 2.2 Scenarios: Another Popular Representation of and with People is Their Integration into Fully Described Scenes from the Novel
- 3. Emblematic Representations
- 4. Conclusion: The Illustrator as a Creative Professional in the Book World
- Illustrations
- Beautiful and Sublime - and Never Mind the Pointed Ears
- 1. Introduction
- 2. »Ye light fairy things tripping so gay« - Victorian Flower Fairies and Diminishing
- 3. »He loved elves, though he seldom met them
- but he was a little frightened of them too.« (Tolkien 2002: 92): Tracing the 'Other' Tradition
- 4. »They were a race high and beautiful […]« (Tolkien 2004: 1137, Appendix F): Elves in The Lord of the Rings.
- 5. »[…] a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!« (Tolkien 2004: 432): Galadriel, the Lady of Lothlórien
- 6. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Visualizing the Never‐Seen
- 1. Tensions in the Cartography of Middle‐earth
- 2. Visual Design Strategies: Hybrid Historicization
- 3. Serialization and Transformation
- Bibliography
- Primary Literature &
- Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Illustrations
- The Fantasy Novel as Commodity
- 1. Semiotics of the Book Cover.
- 2. A Short History of the Cover Design of Epic Fantasy Literature (in Germany)
- 3. A Neomedieval Aesthetics of the Image and the Book
- 4. The Fantasy Novel as a Neomedieval Commodity
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Medievalist Aesthetics and Marketing Strategies
- 1. A Public Introduction to Medieval(ist) Aesthetics
- 2. The Medieval Period as Popular Culture
- 3. Sales Strategies
- 4. Historical Novels and Fantasy as Medievalist Genres: Overlaps and Boundaries
- 5. Types of 'Medievalisation' Employed within the Framework of Cover Design
- 5.1 Colour‐Coding
- 5.2 Font
- 5.3 Motif
- 6. Functions of the Cover
- 7. Overview of Medievalist Aesthetics
- 7.1 Romantic Period
- 7.2 Pre‐Raphaelites and Arts and Crafts Movement
- 7.3 From the End of the 19th Century to the End of the 20th Century
- 7.4 Post‐Modern
- 8. Analysis of the Covers of Gillian Bradshaw's Trilogy Down the Long Wind
- 8.1 Bradshaw's Writing between the Genres
- 8.2 Timeline and Context of Bradshaw's Trilogy
- 8.3 Fred Marcellino (1939-2001)
- 8.4 The Cover Designs by Fred Marcellino
- 8.5 The Cover Designs of the German Editions (1982 to 1984)
- 8.6 The Design of the German Collected Volume of 1999
- 8.7 Other German Editions
- 9. A Conclusion on Medievalist Aesthetics and Marketing
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Illustrations
- William Morris's Medievalist Visual Aesthetics and its Persistence in Fantasy
- 1. William Morris: Works
- 2. Tolkien and Morris
- 3. Morris and Fantasy
- 4. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Primary Literature
- Secondary Literature
- Illustrations
- Unicorns in Contemporary Popular Culture
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Fantasy Medievalism
- 1. Medievalism in the Fantasy Film Genre
- 2. Mythical Thinking
- 3. The Aesthetic of the Mythical
- 4. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Films and Series.
- Reception of Medieval Literature in Science Fiction Series
- 1. Star Trek: Heroes and Demons
- 2. Doctor Who: Robot of Sherwood
- 3. Legends of Tomorrow: Camelot/3000
- Bibliography
- Biobibliographical Information.
