Courting Tragedy: The Lies of Locke Lamora, City Comedy, and Revenge Tragedy

Brian Attebery writes in Strategies of Fantasy (1992) about reading fantasy as a mode rather than a genre. Following his lead, I look at Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006) as a revenge tragedy in the fantastic mode. I prove that the novel is a revenge tragedy by genre through tracing the...

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Main Author: Veera Mäkelä
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 2022-06-01
Series:Fafnir
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Online Access:http://journal.finfar.org/articles/2386.pdf