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The tropes of fantasy fiction / Gabrielle Lissauer.
- Title
- The tropes of fantasy fiction / Gabrielle Lissauer.
- Author
- Lissauer, Gabrielle, 1978-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN3435 .L45 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 208 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Comparing various fantasy fiction stories, this book shows that it is not the tropes and clichés that make a story good or bad but how the author applies them. The book also explores the concept of text versus meta-text--when the story's world and character actions contradict the reader's expectations based on the tropes being used"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- Changing the story -- A matter of perception -- The power of stories -- Magic of fantasy, fantasy of magic -- Not what you think it is -- Heroes and protagonists, villains and antagonists -- No man is an island -- Fairies and dragons and dwarfs, oh my! -- Through the looking glass -- The fundamentals.
- ISBN
- 9780786478583
- 0786478586
- 9781476618364 (canceled/invalid)
- 1476618364 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014044407
- OCLC
- 882191819
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library