Urban Fantasy
Urban fantasy, the genre of fantastic literature in which magic and monsters meet modern society, is fairly young but has old roots. Stefan Ekman’s book, Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, examines the genre in depth, including its inherent social commentary, its historical developmen...
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| description | Urban fantasy, the genre of fantastic literature in which magic and monsters meet modern society, is fairly young but has old roots. Stefan Ekman’s book, Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, examines the genre in depth, including its inherent social commentary, its historical development, and its interplay between modernity and the fantastic.
The author draws on a wide range of urban fantasy texts from five decades, combining detailed analysis of dozens of novels and other media with broad discussions to provide a comprehensive understanding of the genre across three sections. The first section presents an overview of what the genre looks like today—both in terms of its common traits and its variety of settings—and how it has developed over time, including the history of urban fantasy scholarship. The second section examines urban fantasy’s core concern with the unseen, for example through a focus on unseen individuals overlooked by society or hiding within it, and on ignored urban spaces or labyrinthine undergrounds. The third section addresses how urban fantasy explores the relationship between the supernatural and modernity. Ekman offers readings of fiction by Ben Aaronovitch, Lauren Beukes, P. Djelí Clark, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Max Gladstone, Kim Harrison, N.K. Jemisin, and Megan Lindholm, among others.
Urban Fantasy will appeal to teachers and students of the fantastic as well as to urban fantasy enthusiasts and literary scholars. Ekman illuminates the genre’s evolution and defining traits, inviting readers to rethink urban fantasy as a creative tool for using magic to explore modernity. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1401862024-08-13T04:07:57Z Urban Fantasy Ekman, Stefan Urban fantasy, modernity in literature, fantastic literature, urban fantasy history, unseenpeople, unseen spaces, unseen places, investigation plot, urban fantasy settings, urbanfantasy worlds, Ben Aaronovitch, Max Gladstone, Kevin Hearne, Rivers of London, IronDruid Chronicle, Craft Sequence, unseen margins, unseen domination, unseen andunwanted, unseen under ground, inaccessible unseen, police novel, hard-boileddetective, genre theory, urban fantasy scholarship, social commentary thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Urban fantasy, the genre of fantastic literature in which magic and monsters meet modern society, is fairly young but has old roots. Stefan Ekman’s book, Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, examines the genre in depth, including its inherent social commentary, its historical development, and its interplay between modernity and the fantastic. The author draws on a wide range of urban fantasy texts from five decades, combining detailed analysis of dozens of novels and other media with broad discussions to provide a comprehensive understanding of the genre across three sections. The first section presents an overview of what the genre looks like today—both in terms of its common traits and its variety of settings—and how it has developed over time, including the history of urban fantasy scholarship. The second section examines urban fantasy’s core concern with the unseen, for example through a focus on unseen individuals overlooked by society or hiding within it, and on ignored urban spaces or labyrinthine undergrounds. The third section addresses how urban fantasy explores the relationship between the supernatural and modernity. Ekman offers readings of fiction by Ben Aaronovitch, Lauren Beukes, P. Djelí Clark, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Max Gladstone, Kim Harrison, N.K. Jemisin, and Megan Lindholm, among others. Urban Fantasy will appeal to teachers and students of the fantastic as well as to urban fantasy enthusiasts and literary scholars. Ekman illuminates the genre’s evolution and defining traits, inviting readers to rethink urban fantasy as a creative tool for using magic to explore modernity. 2024-07-11T04:42:48Z 2024-07-11T04:42:48Z 2024-07-10T08:51:30Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92121 9781643150642 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/140186 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92121/1/9781643150659.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92121/1/9781643150659.epub Lever Press 10.3998/mpub.14414299 10.3998/mpub.14414299 1f7afbda-6b1b-482d-b7ae-aa8e17267d01 9781643150642 345 open access |
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| topic | Urban fantasy, modernity in literature, fantastic literature, urban fantasy history, unseenpeople, unseen spaces, unseen places, investigation plot, urban fantasy settings, urbanfantasy worlds, Ben Aaronovitch, Max Gladstone, Kevin Hearne, Rivers of London, IronDruid Chronicle, Craft Sequence, unseen margins, unseen domination, unseen andunwanted, unseen under ground, inaccessible unseen, police novel, hard-boileddetective, genre theory, urban fantasy scholarship, social commentary thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
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