Children's Literature Classics - - The Fantasy Genre. Events occur outside the ordinary laws that operate within the universe. Magic is central to the fantasy genre. Fantasy stories often involve journeys and quests. How does fantasy differ from science fiction and fairy tales?
Science fiction stories also operate outside the normal boundaries of the real world but they are usually set in the future and involve the wonders of technology. Fairy tales are shorter than most fantasy works. Characters and settings lack specificity. Seldom are place names given or detailed descriptions of characters provided in fairy tales; nuances and subtleties of portrayal are deliberately ignored. Types of fantasy.
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There are 3 different ways that fantasy writers set up their worlds. Some novels begin and end in a fantasy world (for example The Hobbit or A Wizard of Earthsea). Others start in the real world and move into a fantasy world (for example Alice in Wonderland or Peter Pan). A third type of fantasy is set in the real world but elements of magic intrude upon it (for example Mary Poppins or David Almond’s Skellig). Realistic settings are often called primary worlds; fantasy settings, secondary worlds.
Portals between worlds. Protagonists usually cross some kind of opening or “portal” between the two worlds. Examples of portals: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: a wardrobe. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: a painting. Haroun and the Sea of Stories: sleep. Harry Potter books: platform 9 and .
Writers are able to convey complex ideas on a symbolic level that would be difficult to convey otherwise. Fantasy works can provide a fresh perspective on the real world. Ursula Le Guin has written that “fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true.”1. The fantasy genre involves a different way of apprehending existence but it is no less true than realism.
Fantasy stories can suggest universal truths through the use of magic and the supernatural. Thomas Hardy preferred fantasy over realism, claiming that “a story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling,” and that a writer must have “something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experience of every average man and woman.”2. Back to top. Notes. Ursula Le Guin, “This Fear of Dragons,” in The Thorny Paradise: Writers on Writing for Children, ed. Edward Blishen (Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1.
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Thomas Hardy, The Later Years of Thomas Hardy 1. Florence Emily Hardy (London: Macmillan, 1. Resources on fantasy stories.
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