Journey Through Parallel Universes: The World of Portal Fantasy
| Thesis title in Czech: | Cesta paralelními vesmíry: Svět portálové fantazie |
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| Thesis title in English: | Journey Through Parallel Universes: The World of Portal Fantasy |
| Key words: | portálové fantazie|paralelní světy|bildungsroman|tvoření světů |
| English key words: | portal fantasy|parallel worlds|bildungsroman|world-building |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2019/2020 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | Colin Steele Clark, M.A. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 20.01.2020 |
| Date of assignment: | 20.01.2020 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 10.02.2020 |
| Date and time of defence: | 12.02.2021 10:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 19.01.2021 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 12.02.2021 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | Mgr. Miroslava Horová, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The aim of the thesis is to explore the worlds of portal fantasy in the selected works of literature. Portal fantasy allows the reader to compare the culture and society of the familiar setting of the hero/heroine with the new world the characters enter. The main appeal of this type of fantasy is that it helps the reader to see the main character(s) go through a familiarization process that transforms their view of the world and themselves. In these stories, the characters find themselves in other worlds; through their eyes, the reader is able to compare the societies and other structures of the places. This sub-genre of fantasy raises questions such as “what perspectives and comparisons do these imagined worlds allow us upon our own?” and “how does the Bildungsroman structure corral us towards embracing or rejecting the worldview of the central character(s)?” |
| References |
| Primary: Pullman, Phillip. His Dark Materials trilogy McGuire, Seanan. Wayward Children series Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere Secondary: Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London: Routledge, 1988. James, Edward and Farah Mendlesohn. Eds. The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Grenby, M.O. and Andrea Immel. Eds. The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. New York: Cornell University Press, 1975. Hunt, Peter and Millicent Lenz. Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction. Continuum, 2003. |