EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Beast Fable, Picaresque Novel, Hobbit
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Fantasy consists, rather, of myth-based tales, set entirely or in part of a secondary world, somewhat familiar, but featuring magic and/or the fantastic and addressing primarily archetypal figures, locations and movements. Fantasy, though including a wide variety of characters, themes, styles, and foundational premises, is characterized by a primary tone of wonder. Fantasy is not an animal fable, folktale, fairy tale. Archetype quest: from earliest traditions; goal-based; episodic; linear: archetype: denoted a recurrent narrative design, pattern of action, character type or image identifiable. Archetype hero: actant/questor; developmental progress through series of adventures. Bilbo is an unlikely actant, not a typical hero: a picaro who is honest, good and loyal. Picaresque: from the spanish, a picaresque is a type of quest narrative which recounts the episodic escapades of a rascal the picaro who lives by his wits and wears a mask of false bravado. An image, object, phrase, or reference which repeats or recurs conspicuously within a text.
