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The guiding question of this study is how the theme of knowledge is realized in the genre of fantasy. Drawing from the research fields of literature and knowledge, theory of fantasy, narratology, and memory/orality studies, China Miéville, Terry Pratchett, Kazuo Ishiguro and the Ambivalence of Knowing: An Analytical Model for the Representation of Knowledge in Fantasy Literature furthermore investigates how societal struggles over knowledge are negotiated in contemporary fantasy literature, with specific foci on the depiction of technology and risk in China Miéville's The Scar, culture and identity in Terry Pratchett's Nation, and memory and repression in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant.The study finds that while the worldviews the novels espouse with regard to their attitude to knowledge differ considerably, they all contain the general notion that knowledge can be dangerous, in that the discovery or revelation of hitherto secret knowledge threatens the stability of the society itself or the personhood of individuals. Knowledge conflicts are staged by means of contrasting worldviews, which are realized through the novels' character systems. This particularly pertains to the questions of whether it is better to remember or to forget, and whether the old or the new society is to be preferred. TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Introduction .................................................................................................. 92. Literature and knowledge ............................................................................ 132.1 Preliminary considerations ............................................................................. 142.2 Ways of conceptualizing the relationship between literature and knowledge 152.3 Knowledge as a theme of fantasy literature .................................................... 193. Fantasy and genre ........................................................................................ 233.1 Defining fantasy ............................................................................................. 243.2 Fantasy and structuralism ............................................................................... 263.2.1 Fantasy as mode, genre, and formula .................................................. 293.2.2 Fantasy, structuralism, and character knowledge ................................ 303.3 Rhetorics of fantasy ........................................................................................ 323.3.1 The narrative trajectory of the portal-quest fantasy ............................... 333.4 Conclusion: Theorizing fantasy ...................................................................... 354. Narratology ................................................................................................... 374.1 Character ........................................................................................................ 374.1.1 Character knowledge ........................................................................... 394.2 Plot ................................................................................................................. 434.2.1 Story, plot, and fantasy ........................................................................ 444.3 Space .............................................................................................................. 454.3.1 The division of narrative space ............................................................ 484.4 Conclusion: Narratology ................................................................................ 495. The literary realization of individual and collective knowledge ............... 515.1 Memory in literature ....................................................................................... 525.1.1 Collective memory: Communicative and cultural memory ................. 535.1.2 The rhetoric of collective memory ................................................

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Plný název: China Miéville, Terry Pratchett, Kazuo Ishiguro and the Ambivalence of Knowing
• Podnázev: An Analytical Model for the Representation of Knowledge in Fantasy Literature
• Autor: Murat Sezi
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 180
• EAN: 9783868219616
• ID: 41408193
• Nakladatelství: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
• Hmotnost: 298 g
• Rozměry: 10 × 149 × 211 mm
• Datum vydání: 13. September 2022

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