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Type: Topical Term

Alternate Labels: Fantastic fiction; Heroic fantasy (Fiction)

Broader Terms:

• Fantasy literature
• Fiction

Narrower Terms:

• Magic realism (Literature)

Sources:

• Filmer-Davies, K. Fantasy fiction and Welsh myth, 1996.
• Web. 3 (Fantasy fiction: imaginative fiction dependent for effect on strangeness of setting and of characters)
• Ruse, C. The Cassell dict. of lit. and lang., 1992 (Fantasy: any piece of writing that extends the imagination beyond what seems possible; often inventing imaginary worlds set in the past and future)
• Holman, C.H. A handbk. to lit., 1980 (Fantasy: applied to a work which takes place in a nonexistent and unreal world and/or employs physical and scientific principles not yet discovered)
• Concise Ox. dict. of lit. terms, 1990 (Fantasy: a general term for any kind of fictional work that is not primarily devoted to realistic representation of the known world)
• GSAFD (Fantasy fiction: use for works that feature imaginary worlds, extraordinary creatures, sorcerers, epic quests and magic)

LC Classification: PN3435

Created: 1986-02-11

Last Modified: 1998-09-24 10:43:05

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