ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: On Fairy-Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin, Historical Fiction

• School: Trent University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2810Y
• Professor: ROb Winger

Document Summary

Did you do the same thing as a kid: "the pot of soup, the cauldron of story, has always been boiling, and to it have continually been added new bits, dainty and undainty," (j. r. r. Tolkien, tree and leaf, fairy tales, medieval romance: wonder and the marvellous, magic and the supernatural. Fantasy as exploring humanity: ursula leguin (1929-2018) fantasy as symbolic language of the psyche inner journey, rite of passage (le guin 65) thresholds realism reshaped; emotional reality intact. J. r. r. (john ronald reuel) tolkien (1892-1973): on fairy stories : primary world vs. secondary world, an act of sub-creation secondary world: obeys own rules, consistent and whole. Closed secondary world: self-contained, no contact with primary world: product of writer"s imagination, as social critique, the hobbit. Open secondary world: secondary in contact with primary: wonderland, narnia, wizarding world in harry potter, bridge or a point of contact between two worlds (wardrobe in narnia, train station in.