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Tracing changes in the genre conventions of fantasy literature: A diachronic quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tracing changes in the genre conventions of fantasy literature: A diachronic quantitative and qualitative analysis./
Author:	Miller, Jeffrey R.
Description:	84 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Bridget Drinka.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International46-05.
Subject:	Gender Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1450620
ISBN:	9780549509653

Tracing changes in the genre conventions of fantasy literature: A diachronic quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Miller, Jeffrey R.

Tracing changes in the genre conventions of fantasy literature: A diachronic quantitative and qualitative analysis. - 84 p.

Adviser: Bridget Drinka.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2008.

Defining fantasy has been a problem. I believe this problem comes from trying to define a diverse genre with a single concise definition. In this thesis, I try to show that fantasy literature is not as unchanging as definers have tried to make it.

ISBN: 9780549509653Subjects--Topical Terms:

898693
Gender Studies.

Tracing changes in the genre conventions of fantasy literature: A diachronic quantitative and qualitative analysis.
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520 $a Defining fantasy has been a problem. I believe this problem comes from trying to define a diverse genre with a single concise definition. In this thesis, I try to show that fantasy literature is not as unchanging as definers have tried to make it.
520 $a I detail in the first chapter one major shift that has been identified in previous research---the emergence of immersive fantasy---by conducting an exhaustive search of previous fantasy literature, looking for conventions of the style. After finding several works which show many of the conventions of immersive fantasy emerging, I then identify to what degree the conventions of immersive fantasy are present in the works. I show that the earlier works of fantasy set the foundation for what the genre has become.
520 $a I use in the second chapter a random sampling of accessible fantasy literature to show how fantasy literature has changed in ways that have not been previously noted: in the characterization of the protagonist, the depiction of fantasy worlds, and the use of magic. I find that there is a correlation between the popular explosion of immersive fantasy and the instilling of magic in the point-of-view characters. When immersive fantasy began to gain popularity, innate magical abilities in the point-of-view character increased in popularity as well.
520 $a By identifying changes in the genre conventions of fantasy, I believe attempts by scholars to define fantasy literature will be more accurately formed. The implications the changes show that one definition is not sufficient for the whole genre; changes in the genre indicate, at the very least, an early and late period for the genre of Modern Fantasy.
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