Notes Towards Gritty Fantasy Medievalism, Temporality, and Worldbuilding
This article discusses gritty fantasy, a fantasy subgenre, which was established in the early 2000s and has since gained a lot of traction. In previous research, gritty fantasy has often been understood as a deconstructive form of fantasy that draws on the barbaric Middle Ages and subverts fantasy t...
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Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
2022-12-01
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| author | Anna Bark Persson |
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| description | This article discusses gritty fantasy, a fantasy subgenre, which was established in the early 2000s and has since gained a lot of traction. In previous research, gritty fantasy has often been understood as a deconstructive form of fantasy that draws on the barbaric Middle Ages and subverts fantasy tropes as a reaction against earlier forms of popular fantasy. I examine, rather, the genre’s relation to the medieval and its depictions of power. Drawing on queer temporality and theories on fantasy literature and worldbuilding (Mendlsohn; Roine), I approach gritty fantasy first and foremost as a form of fantasy literature, placing it within the context of speculative fiction and asking what it does as a fantastic literature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4783ebf37aa84f31993a9d2cdef3e79a2023-01-26T18:24:36ZengFinnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy ResearchFafnir2342-20092022-12-01926981Notes Towards Gritty Fantasy Medievalism, Temporality, and WorldbuildingAnna Bark PerssonThis article discusses gritty fantasy, a fantasy subgenre, which was established in the early 2000s and has since gained a lot of traction. In previous research, gritty fantasy has often been understood as a deconstructive form of fantasy that draws on the barbaric Middle Ages and subverts fantasy tropes as a reaction against earlier forms of popular fantasy. I examine, rather, the genre’s relation to the medieval and its depictions of power. Drawing on queer temporality and theories on fantasy literature and worldbuilding (Mendlsohn; Roine), I approach gritty fantasy first and foremost as a form of fantasy literature, placing it within the context of speculative fiction and asking what it does as a fantastic literature.http://journal.finfar.org/articles/2565.pdfgritty fantasymedievalismqueer temporalityspeculative fiction |
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| title | Notes Towards Gritty Fantasy Medievalism, Temporality, and Worldbuilding |
| title_full | Notes Towards Gritty Fantasy Medievalism, Temporality, and Worldbuilding |
| title_fullStr | Notes Towards Gritty Fantasy Medievalism, Temporality, and Worldbuilding |
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| title_short | Notes Towards Gritty Fantasy Medievalism, Temporality, and Worldbuilding |
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| topic | gritty fantasy medievalism queer temporality speculative fiction |
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