ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ursula K. Le Guin, Creative Time, Dreamtime

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

Eng 1120 v literature and composition i: introduction to. Heroic fantasy : presents an alternate realm/world complete with maps/ histories. To take you away from mundane and regular life = escapist. Stimulation for your creative thinking = imagination (relates to us , metaphor) Has to have logic, it must follow the logic of cause and afect. If it doesn"t follow a logic the writer has taken the time to create (elements of realism) There has to be something we can connect to in the characters. Today on tv you see gritty dark extreme scenarios, things we are terriied of. Fantasy has three things: magic our inner potential and powers, our things that can help or hinder us, magic is knowledge, we are not really aware of our full potential and our essence, hero : Traditionally- brave, strong, independent, smart, honourable, male.