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Fantasy aesthetics : visualizing myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020 /

Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Velten, Hans Rudolf (Editor), Imorde, Joseph, 1963- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2024]
Series:Middle Ages and popular culture ; v. 4.
Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Subjects:
Fantasy fiction > Illustrations > History.
Illustration of books > 19th century.
Illustration of books > 20th century.
Illustration of books > 21st century.
Fantasy in art.
Illustration des livres > 19e siècle.
Illustration des livres > 20e siècle.
Illustration des livres > 21e siècle.
Fantasmes dans l'art.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Literature and Visible Presentation
  • 2. Fantasy Aesthetic(s): Some Perspectives
  • 3. Contributions
  • Bibliography
  • Illustrations
  • Aesthetics without Pictures?
  • 1. Illustration as Fashion
  • 2. Quantity: Pictures en masse
  • 3. Infantilization: the Immature Audience
  • 4. Fantasy: Endangering the Power of the Imagination
  • Bibliography
  • The Visual Realization of Fantastic Worlds in Book Cover Design
  • 1. Representations of Landscapes
  • 2. Representations of People/Heroes
  • 2.1 The Significance of the Mainstream in the Representation of Characters in Fantasy Literature
  • 2.2 Scenarios: Another Popular Representation of and with People is Their Integration into Fully Described Scenes from the Novel
  • 3. Emblematic Representations
  • 4. Conclusion: The Illustrator as a Creative Professional in the Book World
  • Illustrations
  • Beautiful and Sublime
  • and Never Mind the Pointed Ears
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. »Ye light fairy things tripping so gay«
  • Victorian Flower Fairies and Diminishing
  • 3. »He loved elves, though he seldom met them
  • but he was a little frightened of them too.« (Tolkien 2002: 92): Tracing the 'Other' Tradition
  • 4. »They were a race high and beautiful [...]« (Tolkien 2004: 1137, Appendix F): Elves in The Lord of the Rings.
  • 5. »[...] a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!« (Tolkien 2004: 432): Galadriel, the Lady of Lothlórien
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Illustrations
  • Visualizing the Never-Seen
  • 1. Tensions in the Cartography of Middle-earth
  • 2. Visual Design Strategies: Hybrid Historicization
  • 3. Serialization and Transformation
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Literature andamp
  • Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Illustrations
  • The Fantasy Novel as Commodity
  • 1. Semiotics of the Book Cover.
  • 2. A Short History of the Cover Design of Epic Fantasy Literature (in Germany)
  • 3. A Neomedieval Aesthetics of the Image and the Book
  • 4. The Fantasy Novel as a Neomedieval Commodity
  • Bibliography
  • Illustrations
  • Medievalist Aesthetics and Marketing Strategies
  • 1. A Public Introduction to Medieval(ist) Aesthetics
  • 2. The Medieval Period as Popular Culture
  • 3. Sales Strategies
  • 4. Historical Novels and Fantasy as Medievalist Genres: Overlaps and Boundaries
  • 5. Types of 'Medievalisation' Employed within the Framework of Cover Design
  • 5.1 Colour-Coding
  • 5.2 Font
  • 5.3 Motif
  • 6. Functions of the Cover
  • 7. Overview of Medievalist Aesthetics
  • 7.1 Romantic Period
  • 7.2 Pre-Raphaelites and Arts and Crafts Movement
  • 7.3 From the End of the 19th Century to the End of the 20th Century
  • 7.4 Post-Modern
  • 8. Analysis of the Covers of Gillian Bradshaw's Trilogy Down the Long Wind
  • 8.1 Bradshaw's Writing between the Genres
  • 8.2 Timeline and Context of Bradshaw's Trilogy
  • 8.3 Fred Marcellino (1939-2001)
  • 8.4 The Cover Designs by Fred Marcellino
  • 8.5 The Cover Designs of the German Editions (1982 to 1984)
  • 8.6 The Design of the German Collected Volume of 1999
  • 8.7 Other German Editions
  • 9. A Conclusion on Medievalist Aesthetics and Marketing
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Illustrations
  • William Morris's Medievalist Visual Aesthetics and its Persistence in Fantasy
  • 1. William Morris: Works
  • 2. Tolkien and Morris
  • 3. Morris and Fantasy
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Literature
  • Secondary Literature
  • Illustrations
  • Unicorns in Contemporary Popular Culture
  • Bibliography
  • Illustrations
  • Fantasy Medievalism
  • 1. Medievalism in the Fantasy Film Genre
  • 2. Mythical Thinking
  • 3. The Aesthetic of the Mythical
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Films and Series.
  • Reception of Medieval Literature in Science Fiction Series
  • 1. Star Trek: Heroes and Demons
  • 2. Doctor Who: Robot of Sherwood
  • 3. Legends of Tomorrow: Camelot/3000.