From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Fantasy fiction
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047114
- info:lc/authorities/sh85047114
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85047114#concept
Instance Of
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Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Heroic fantasy (Fiction)
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Fantastic fiction
Sources
- found: Filmer-Davies, K. Fantasy fiction and Welsh myth, 1996.
- found: Web. 3(Fantasy fiction: imaginative fiction dependent for effect on strangeness of setting and of characters)
- found: 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)
- found: 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)
- found: 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)
- found: GSAFD(Fantasy fiction: use for works that feature imaginary worlds, extraordinary creatures, sorcerers, epic quests and magic)
LC Classification
- PN3435
- PN6071.F25
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1998-09-24: revised
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