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Abstract
This chapter will deal with Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories” (1983d). Two main ideas will guide the text. To prove how in the first half of the 20th century, in an academic scenario dominated by the discussion of who was worth to be included in the novel “Great tradition”, Tolkien produced an essay on a genre unworthy of any serious attention, which however became itself an unavoidable source for students and researchers of literature in the last century. The other main idea is to prove that “On Fairy-Stories” changed forever the way fantasy was understood (as happened with the essay “Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics”(1983a), anticipating much of what is now discussed in narratology: storyworlds and fiction worlds. Tolkien did not have at his disposal the contemporary theoretical vocabulary but he definitely launched the cornerstones for contemporary narrative study that came to be known as the “narrative turn” that took form in the 1990s with critics as Umberto Eco (1990), Lubomír Doležel (1998), Thomas Pavel (1986, 1988), and Marie-Laure Ryan (1992).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 5th International Multidisciplinary Congress (PHI 2019), October 7-9, 2019, Paris, France |
Editors | Mário Kong, Maria do Rosário Monteiro, Maria João Neto |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 395-404 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429297755 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780367277192 |
Publication status | Published - 24 Sept 2019 |
Event | 5th International Multidisciplinary Congress PHI 2019: “Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy". - Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France Duration: 7 Oct 2019 → 9 Oct 2019 Conference number: 5 http://phi.fa.ulisboa.pt/phi2019/index.php/en/ |
Publication series
Name | PHI |
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Publisher | CRC Press |
Number | 2 |
Conference
Conference | 5th International Multidisciplinary Congress PHI 2019: “Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy". |
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Abbreviated title | Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy |
Country/Territory | France |
City | Paris |
Period | 7/10/19 → 9/10/19 |
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Keywords
- Tolkien
- On Fairy-Stories
- narratology
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On stories: Tolkien and fictional worlds
Maria do Rosário Monteiro (Speaker)
8 Oct 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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5th International Multidisciplinary Congress PHI 2019: “Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy". (Event)
Maria do Rosário Monteiro (Editorial board member)
1 Jan 2019 → 30 Jul 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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A Simbólica do Espaço nos Mundos Fantásticos Neo-Românticos; Análise Comparativa das Obras The Lord of the Rings e Earthsea
Yvette Centeno (Member of Jury)
9 May 1997Activity: Examination