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Urban fantasy : exploring modernity through magic / Stefan Ekman

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Amherst, Massachusetts : Lever Press, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (331 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781643150659
  • 9781643150642
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: 1643150642 DDC classification:
  • 809.3/8766 23/eng/20240819
LOC classification:
  • PN3435
Online resources: Summary: 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 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 othersPPN: PPN: 191620838XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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