Nature vs. “Reality” in Fantasy Fiction: The Potential for Ecocritical Imaginings
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چکیده
Despite being prominently associated with its supernatural qualities, nature also features in fantasy fiction, an aspect of the genre that is often overlooked. Fantasy fiction developed as a dialectical opposition to Enlightenment and realist novel, based on binary oppositions reason/supernatural realism/supernatural. It possible add next same side these since reason/nature or culture/nature another fundamental Western thought. Moreover, novel dealt primarily urban environment relegating background. In this opposition, was taken mainstream, while viewed popular literature. Although changed after mid-twentieth century, even recent critic like Jameson, who argues for importance science utopia creating space humanity imagine different political alternatives all-encompassing late capitalism, dismisses regressive. fact, offers alternative, non-anthropocentric visions world. Not only does it disrupt reality assumed inevitability, providing opportunity subversive imagining, portrays world which non-human essential. Thus, has unique potential inspiring more environmental ways life. Tolkien Le Guin both saw paper discusses their theoretical arguments well Tolkien’s The Lord Rings terms ecocritical approach, connecting Jameson’s ideas utopian put forward fiction.
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عنوان ژورنال: Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1303-0094']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.843678