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Dante's Inferno the Mabinogion 1320 Published 1400 The Worldbuilder’s Journey: a Sourcebook and Roadmap for Courses on Worldbuilding Douglass S. Parker July 22, 2019 This is a ‘hyperbook’ — a PDF ebook with hyperlinks that query web resources. PDF Readers — and Browsers — handle Links differently NOTE: PDF readers handle links differently — not all show URLs when mousing over links. In browsers: the Firefox and Chrome PDF readers display link content; currently the Safari PDF reader does not. PDF reader apps: Acrobat and recent versions of Preview display link content. In Safari: Command-click opens links in a new Tab; Command-Option-click opens links in a new Window. For use of information in the links, select a browser and PDF reader accordingly. If not satisfactory, consider configuring your browser to use a different PDF reader. For example, an Acrobat plugin can be used as the default PDF reader in major browsers. Please check periodically whether this is the most recent version of this document. Send questions, corrections, suggestions, etc. to: [email protected] mentioning: Worldbuilder’s Journey version of 2019–07–22. Please help us improve! July 22, 2019 2 D.S. Parker . The Worldbuilder’s Journey: a Sourcebook and Roadmap for Courses on Worldbuilding Douglass S. Parker Attribution License: this book is distributed under a Creative Commons License CC-BY: licensees may copy, distribute, and display this work in any medium/format, or make derivative works based on it, provided they credit it. Imaginary Worlds are fictional places like Middle Earth, Narnia, and the Land of Oz — sometimes also called fantasy worlds or fictional worlds. They have always been important in myth, folk tales, fairy tales, theater, and literature. They are also important in gaming and entertainment. A common feature of these worlds is a map, giving perspective on the entire place. Another important feature is the journey story, describing voyages or quests in the world. Intrigued by these worlds, Douglass S. Parker, Sr. built a library of books about them and coined the term Parageography to describe their design. ‘Para-’ means ‘beyond’ here, and the idea was that par- ageography goes beyond world maps into world design. In other words, where geography describes physical structure, parageography describes conceptual structure — so parageography is ‘conceptual geography’ of world design. Parker taught an undergraduate worldbuilding course at the University of Texas for 25 years. After experiments with a course trying different worlds in 1973–1978, he offered a regular course titled Introduction to Parageography (CC.327) in the Dept. of Classics from 1982 to 2007. It emphasized creativity, and took students on a journey studying about 20 great worlds over history, starting with the Odyssey and ending with Middle-Earth. The course project required students to build a world of their own. This approach was successful — the course won awards and became a very popular course at the University of Texas. This PDF also describes the parageography library. The core of the library has about 2,000 nonfiction books, with a corresponding index having about 50,000 links from books to web resources. These books cover about 30 topics related to world design. Today imaginary worlds are an important medium, and worldbuilding plays a central role in some in- dustries (such as media franchises). The course and library PDFs are being made available as resources in the hope they’ll help people and promote worldbuilding. Disclaimer: this book has been put together by Douglass S. Parker, Jr., who was only indirectly involved with the course. The preface and the introductory comments (first chapter) try to present the Parageography idea, but they are in no way summaries of Parker Sr.’s lifetime of perspectives. The presentation differs significantly from what he would have presented. The Parageography concepts are due to Parker Sr., then, and this book description (including all inaccuracies and inadequacies) to Parker Jr. All ideas for improvement are welcome. Our information about offerings of the Parageography course after 1995 is incomplete; if you have access to more recent course materials please let us know. Cover image: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1558) [n.b. lower right corner] D.S. Parker 3 July 22, 2019 . Preface Inspired by the World of Oz in the 1930s, Science Fiction worlds in the 1940s, and Tolkien’s Middle Earth in the 1950s, Douglass Parker started looking for good references on imaginary worlds (aka fantasy worlds or fantasy lands). These worlds are difficult to characterize. One very popular feature isthe world map — an outline of journeys to unfold. Another common feature is the use of journey stories, which track a sequence of challenges facing characters on a quest or journey through the world. Parker was interested in the design of these worlds — ‘how they work’. Over 60 years he compiled a library, with a nonfiction core that reached 2000 books, and came to think of them as defining a field of knowledge that hecalled parageography (‘beyond geography’). The idea of parageography is to go beyond a world map (geography), and get at the world design. Parker started to offer a course on parageography in 1973. Its scope grew until 1978, covering recent worlds like Ozand science fiction worlds like those of Dune and Amber. However, at that point it was not yet a ‘worldbuilding’ course (requiring creative and active involvement from students). In Winter 1982 he offered the course at Dartmouth, with very motivated students, and this led to its becoming a regular course in Texas emphasizing what he called ‘applied creativity’. Over the next 25 years at the University of Texas, up til 2007, a generation of students took the course. It made a tour of about 20 great worlds through history, with required reading of source texts. It became a worldbuilding course: for the final project students had to build their own creative world. This put them ona Worldbuilder’s Journey — a project of their own design. Parker took the role of a Guide, offering background and general strategies while letting the students improvise. This was among the most successful aspects of the course, and helped it stay popular for 25 years. Figure 1: Worldbuilding is a great journey [Map of ... Saturnin Farandoul (Robida, 1879) [Wikipedia: Public Domain]] The Worldbuilder’s Journey is the title of this book. It tries to make an argument for similar courses that combine a tour of great worlds across history with a worldbuilding project. It explains what the parageography course did, the importance of comparisons between worlds, and how the course project worked. Worldbuilding has evolved enormously since this time, also, and this book briefly mentions worldbuilding directions beyond topics covered in the course — and how worldbuilding communities can help. One reason for the term ‘parageography’ was to stress that the approach was unusual — a ‘conceptual geography’ of world design, grounded in influential examples from history. A map can summarize some aspects of a world, like its geography, D.S. Parker 5 July 22, 2019 . but cannot summarize journey stories for example. The first chapters focus on great imaginary worlds, and offer overviews of the parageography course and library. This introduction is followed by chapters about comparative world design — with suggestions for worldbuilding. Some of this material goes beyond what was covered in the parageography course. There is a final chapter of bibliographies on related topics: world catalogs (coffee table-books), worldbuilding basics (such as designs of basic structures), course readings, and reference works (including encyclopedias). Hopefully this book will help people design worlds, and explain ‘how they work’. The bibliographies here emphasize books related to the course; many more bibliographies are covered in the parageography library. The PDF you are looking at is a ‘hyperbook’ — a PDF ebook with links to resources. It gives a way to share materials from the course and library, and make them available to everyone: each book description includes a text synopsis and about 25 hyperlinks (which use the synopsis to query resource sites on the web). Even if a particular book is impossible to access directly, links that use its synopsis to search these sites may lead to something useful in worldbuilding. This book is an overview, along with some starting points for worldbuilding. The parageography course and library are summarized in two large companion hyperbooks. The course hyperbook is essentially this overview book plus copies of course notes, and is about 400 pages long. The library hyperbook has synopses and links for about 2000 books, andis currently about 800 pages. As this suggests, one reason for writing this book was to present library and course materials as resources that might be helpful to worldbuilders. Another reason for writing this book is to present a roadmap, or rough outline, for new courses on worldbuilding. Any set of worlds can be used with the roadmap (rough course outline) of the parageography course. For example, Section 7.2 is a bibliography of World Catalogs, which include overviews of: • popular modern Fantasy Worlds • Fabled Islands • Fairy Lands • Lost Worlds. The set of worlds could be chosen around any of these, or any other theme — such as matriarchy, non-classical mythology, or the Sword & Sorcery genre. Figure 2 shows an example of the roadmap for a new set of worlds. A key ingredient for success of the course was the instructor’s challenging the students to build a creative world (for the course project — aka the Worldbuilder’s Journey). This challenge kept the course popular. — Douglass Stott Parker, Jr. (son of Douglass S. Parker, Sr.) July 22, 2019 6 D.S. Parker . Worldbuiding Course Roadmap (example -- for a course on Heroic worlds) Part 2: The Worldbuilder's Journey Part 1: Comparative World Design -- worldbuilding course project -- study of a set of worlds World Design Odyssey (independent student effort) Project Report King Arthur (encyclopedia, wiki, 'world bible') Faerie Conan Middle Earth Star Wars The worlds above at left give an example of a set chosen by an instructor for a worldbuilding course.
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