{"product_id":"the-enduring-fantastic-9781476680125","title":"The Enduring Fantastic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAnna Höglund and Cecilia Trenter\t1\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eAnna Höglund and Cecilia Trenter\t3\u003cbr\u003eThe Use of the Fantastic in a Historical Perspective\u003cbr\u003eDragons and Kingdoms: Political Authority and Fantasy in the Histories of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Saxo Grammaticus\u003cbr\u003eHans Hägerdal\t20\u003cbr\u003eEgyptian Mummies, Medicine and the Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Sweden\u003cbr\u003eJoachim Östlund\t37\u003cbr\u003eA Double-Edged Sword: Promises and Dangers of Hypnotism in Sweden, 1880–1915\u003cbr\u003eCecilia Riving\t49\u003cbr\u003eThe Use of the Fantastic and Fantastika in Contemporary Culture\u003cbr\u003eA Friend and Foe: The Portrayal of Otherness and Disease in Vampire Fiction\u003cbr\u003eAnna Höglund\t68\u003cbr\u003ePriestesses of Avalon: Fantasy Fiction and Contemporary Goddess Worship\u003cbr\u003eÅsa Trulsson\t88\u003cbr\u003eDwarfs Are Not Religious, Sir! Gradually Reclining Dwarven Irreligion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Universe\u003cbr\u003eJonas Svensson\t106\u003cbr\u003eBringing Dragons Back into the World: Dismantling the Anthropocene in Robin Hobb's The Realm of the Elderlings\u003cbr\u003eMariah Larsson\t124\u003cbr\u003eOur World Is Dew: Tor Åge Bringsværd's Fable Prose as a Chthulucenic Exploration\u003cbr\u003eMarit Ruge Bjærke and Kyrre Kverndokk\t140\u003cbr\u003eThe Use of the Fantastic and Fantastika in Memory Culture\u003cbr\u003e\"And this is how I tried to fathom the Lindenborg Pool\": William Morris, Medievalism and Modernity\u003cbr\u003ePer Klingberg\t156\u003cbr\u003eFairy Tales Transformed: Analyzing a New Wave of Feminist Retellings of Fairy Tales\u003cbr\u003eMaria Nilson\t173\u003cbr\u003eRemediation of Cultural Memory in the Dragon Age Videogame Series\u003cbr\u003eCecilia Trenter\t188\u003cbr\u003eFallout, Memory and Values: The Uses of History and Time in a Fantasy-Driven Videogame\u003cbr\u003eDerek Fewster\t203\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t221\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t223","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040469942615,"sku":"9781476680125","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476680125.jpg?v=1750946856","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-enduring-fantastic-9781476680125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}