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Modern Fantasy Do you know this movie?
By Jessica Jaramillo h ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9I5tlU4Kuo Rachel Jones Nicole Lusk
Defining Modern Fantasy The Evolution of Modern Fantasy • Genre began in the 19th century. Known as literary fairy tales and stylized by oral tradi on • Unexplainable beyond known. “willing suspense of disbelief” • Generic se ngs, distant mes, magical, one dimensional, happy mes. • Unlike oral tradi on, literary fairy tales had known authors. • Extends reality through a wide imagina ve vision. • 1st publica on in the U.S. – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum in 1900. • Never could be. • 1945 Newberry Medal to Robert Lawson for Rabbit Hill. • Misunderstood as an escape to a simpler world. • Engaging, rich plots, fantas c elements, and rich characters. Fantasies from the beginning • Strength and depth of emo on surpass real life experiences. •Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 1865 •The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 • •At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald 1871 •The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis 1950-1956 Two types: Low Fantasy and High Fantasy •The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling 1894 • Low: - primary world “here and now” –magic – impossible elements •Peter and Wendy “Peter Pan” – J.M. Barrie 1904 (1911) • High: - secondary world – impossible in 1st – consistent with laws of •The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Po er 1902 2nd world •The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 1908 •Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne 1926 3 plots: - created world – travel between – primary marked by Current Fantasies boundaries th st Mid 20 Century popularity 21 century Extraordinary popularity •Picture books by: Kevin Henkes, Rosemary Wells, Susan •Goosebumps series – R. L. S ne 1990’s Meddaugh, and Lisa Campbell Ernst •Harry Po er series – J. K. Rowling
1. Personified Animals • Characters are animals that talk and behave like humans Categories of Modern Fantasy
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2. Personified Toys 3. Outlandish Characters and Situations
• Characters include toys that • Stories that are realis c but contain “characters
that behave in outrageous highly exaggerated talk and behave like humans ways that are u erly impossible”
4. Magical Powers • Stories in 5. Embellished Fairy Tales which character, • Fairy tales that have been world, and/ embellished to include more character development, or items descrip on of se ng, and possess fuller story. O en a empts magical answers ques ons that powers. were provoked from the original/tradi onal fairytale and shows different perspec ves.
6. Extraordinary Worlds 7. Supernatural Elements • Character from the normal world enters a extraordinary world by some means. • Contain supernatural elements— o en scary stories.
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8. Time Slips 9. High Fantasy • Characters travel through me.
• Categories: myth fantasy, gothic fantasy, epic/heroic fantasy, and sword and sorcery fantasy • Se ng is a secondary world • “Noble characters, archetypes, and elevated style” – Tynn, Zahrski, and Boyer (1979)
How FANTASY Works… Criteria for Evaluating Elements of story are transformed into something magical or impossible in the Modern Fantasy natural world. • Is the story well wri en according to literary standards? Se ng takes place in a secondary world or both normal and secondary world • Is the theme compelling to readers in a “real world” as well as in the fantasy world? Character mirrors the disbelief of the reader • Are the elements that make the story a fantasy convincing, consistent, and well-developed? Does the Plot is made believable through descrip on of logic or laws of the secondary story allow readers to suspend disbelief? world, details are consistent • Does the author maintain a sense of logic and order
within the created world? Theme must be one that ma ers in the our real world
Major Writers of Fantasy and Major Writers of Fantasy and Their Works Their Works
Lloyd Alexander Susan Cooper Bruce Coville Roald Dahl Seeds of his stories were planted by the Moved to the USA were she was homesick Earnest reader who read fantasy stories. His childhood influenced his wri ngs. Writes extensive reading he did as a child. Nominee and lonely therefore she turned to writing for the Hans Chris an Anderson award in fantasy as a home. Realized he like wri ng when a teacher gave truly detestable characters. Popular among 2008. • The Dark is Rising (Newbery Honor him me to write a long story. children and adults. • The Chronicles of Prydain Book) • Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher • The Witches • The Book of Three • Over Sea, Under Stone • My Teacher is an Alien • George’s Marvelous Medicine • The Black Cauldron (Newbery Honor • Greenwitch • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Book) • The Grey King (Newbery Medal) • The Castle of Llyr • Silver on the Tree • The High King (Newbery Medal) • King of Shadows
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Major Writers of Fantasy and Major Writers of Fantasy and Their Works Their Works Cornelia Funke Brain Jacques Diana Wynne Jones Philip Pullman Regarded as one of the most prominent and Wrote his first book to entertain students at While studying in Oxford she a ended Loved comics especially Superman and widely read authors in Germany where she is a school for the blind. lectures given by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Batman. Taught Middle School students. author of over forty books. Degree in • Redwall Tolkien. Lives in Oxford. Educa on Theory. • Mossflower • The Magicians of Caprona • The Golden Compass • The Thief Lord • Ma meo • The Lives of Christopher Chant • The Subtle Knife • Inkheart • Mariel of Redwall • Howl’s Moving Castle • The Amber Spyglass • Inkspell • Salamandastron • Year of the Griffin • Inkdeath • Mar n the Warrior • Dark Lord of Derkholm • Dragon Rider • The Bellmaker • Power of Three • Outcast of Redwall • A Charmed Life • The Long Patrol
Major Writers of Fantasy and Their Works Your Turn! J. K. Rowling Jane Yolen Design your own fantasy book Star ng wri ng her famous book in Former president of the Science Fic on Portugal and finished it in England. Writers of America. She has won While living in England she was living on numerous awards. cover! welfare. The books have been translated • The Devil’s Arithme c into sixty-two languages. • Commander Toad and the Voyage • Harry Po er and the Sorcerer’s Home Stone • The Sword and the Righ ul King
Other Notable Writers of Modern Fantasy Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Chris van Allsburg, Laurence Yep, Virginia Hamilton, Lois Duncan, Ursula Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, Tom McGowen, Garth Nix, Tamora Pierce, Meredith Ann Pierce, and Sco Westerfield.
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