Real-World relevance of fantastic creation: An examination of “High Fantasy” and the goals of literal and historical writing.

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4 pages

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07/17/2008

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Table of Contents Real-World relevance of fantastic creation: An examination of “High Fantasy” and the goals of literal and historical writing. Table of Contents

 
  1. Improtance of J. R. R. Tolkien's work.
  2. The language.
  3. The sentence structure.
  4. Composition.
  5. Characters.

Abstract

For the most part, fantastic or otherwise impossible methods of storytelling are ignored in the world of modern and classical literature. In order to accurately appreciate the quandary of the modern "fantasy" author, one must be aware of the commonplace practice of division and delineation that occurs in the world of literature. writing is often deemed truly literary only if the literal symbols used to describe more abstract concepts are easily relatable to the time in which they are written; that is to say that mythological concepts are only acceptable if they are expressed as allegorical allusions to real-world phenomena, specifically ones that are relevant to the time in which the work is written. Orwell's Animal Farm is forgiven for talking farm animals and seemingly mystical wisdom only because they are intentionally representative of totemic archetypes in man, and the folly of their governmental system, due to the fact that the reader is made unaware of these allusions by an engaging surface tale (Rodden, p. xviii). Authors such as JRR Tolkien, in contrast, have claimed their intentional evasion of such allegory, and even insisted that such allegory hurts the nature of this genre of writing.

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