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Thinning and Accusations of Nostalgia in Fantasy
The other day I came across a comment somewhere (alas, I don’t remember on what blog/forum) that enjoyment of fantasy stems from a nostalgia for the medieval era when lives were “poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” This view is typically … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Genre Observations, Science Fiction, specfic, Writing
Tagged Boccacio, C.S. Lewis, Chaucer, Dante, Discworld, Enlightenment, fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Clute, Lord of the Rings, Malory, Medieval Fantasy, Narrative Structure, Nostalgia, Renaissance, Rhetoric, Romantics, Secondary World Fantasy, Terry Pratchet, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Thinning, writing
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