The sub-genres of fantasy literature : where does 'metaphysical fantasy', as exemplified by A.J. Dalton's novel 'Empire of the Saviours', sit in relation to traditional 'high fantasy' and other second-world sub-genres of fantasy literature?
Drawing upon academic and critical literature, the introduction to this exegesis considers how J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (1954) became the ‘norm’ in modern second-world fantasy. Just as Tolkien’s ‘high fantasy’ mediated the fantasies of the sociohistorical periods that preceded it (Jame...
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University of Huddersfield
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.754536 |