Exploring Imaginary Worlds: Essays on Media, Structure, and Subcreation

ISBN-13: 9780367558475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 244 str.

Wolf, Mark J. P.

Opis

From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary.

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Introduction  Worlds of Words  1. The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg: Subcreation and Social Criticism 2. ‘A Little Bit of England Which I Have Myself Created’: Creating Barsetshire across Forms, Genres, Time, and Authors 3. Mythopoetic Suspense, Eschatology and Misterium: World-Building Lessons from Dostoevsky 4. Building the Vorkosigan Universe  Audiovisual Worlds  5. Our World: World-Building in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town 6. "Suckled on Shadows": States of Decay in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Novels 7. The Gothic World-Building of Dark Shadows 8. Daventry and the Worlds of King’s Quest  Transmedia Worlds  9. The Softer Side of Dune: The Impact of Social Sciences on World-Building 10. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Balance and Interconnectivity in the Fractured Worlds of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s The Death Gate Cycle 11. Welcome to the "Second-stage" Lynchverse – Twin Peaks: The Return and the Impossibility of Return Vs. Getting a Return 12. The Fault in Our Star Trek: (Dis)Continuity Mapping, Textual Conservationism, and the Perils of Prequelization 13. Appendix: On Measuring and Comparing Imaginary Worlds