CHAPTER2
FANTASY
Mv
Fictior., as
the
epm;site
is
a
game
of
make-believe in which
the
author
i:naginatively
built
characters
behavior
significantly and
situations
which
The
JJU.rposc
the
truths of
human
life
interpretive
V'lriter
is to
cor:lillU::ticatte truths through
imagin<:dfacts
(ARP,
1998:288).
of
the
nutett en!h c< ntJty, realism
ha.d
introdue<d itself
as
the
serious
mode. lhose who
wrote anything else, such
as:
Lewis
Carroll, George
1¥1<"'-'1-'Ul''uc.t,
William
Morris,
Charles Kingsley,
and
even,
Charles
Dickens were
being
labeled writers of fanmsy or w-riters
in
l:niited
States,
the
bu,;est
lite:rnry
market,
imaginative literature
(except
soJ:nething
"new"
called
"mag :e realism")
has
been
to
a
section
of
some
Eu:roJ;eac1
cities. It was
placed
special categories
by
publishers,
special
sections
in
bookstores
ai1d special
courses
by the scl:!ools.
However, wi1at clid happen was
development
called
fantasy
literature.
might
say,
to
was
directly
connected
as
Janes
Barke
exclusion of
fa'1tasy
literature
in
the
seventeenth century, to
the
:elebration of
clllssics in the eighteenth century,
nd
to
the
entreJJlclllnent
of
realism
t\ventieth centuries.
1ne deve'lofJ::n:ent cf
the
fantasy
is
a
product
of the
Romantic
:reaction
to
the
eighteenth
cer1tmy classicism,
of
the publication
of
the
frst sci·enc:e JJ:ct:on
novel,
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