Fantasy Aesthetics : : Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, 1880-2020.

• Superior document: Populäres Mittelalter Series
• Author: Velten, Hans Rudolf.
• TeilnehmendeR: Imorde, Joseph.; Schrage, Lukas.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Populäres Mittelalter Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Fantasy between Text and Image -- 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 &amp -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Biobibliographical Information.