ENG239H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brian Stableford, Misanthropy, Msnbc
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Fantasy as mode/tradition vs. fantasy as marketing category/commodity. To many thinkers fantasy has seemed a silly self- indulgence, even a perversion kathryn hume, Fantasy and mimesis: responses to reality in western literature (methuen, 1984), xvi. [ ] why use fantasy? what do audiences get from it? what good is it to authors? - hume, 19- 20. Peter did a magic spell, and it worked fine. With no unintended consequences, and no weird side effects. News crews were standing and talking in front of his house. Factual almost worked fine, no consequences the spell worked fine without any side effects nothing bad happened. Don"t know what the spell was but it worked fine. Nothing questions the reality of magic, but states its real. Nobody questioned whether the spell happened or not. Narrator states magic happens in this world no questions asked. Could the clean spell revolutionize spellcasting? a voice asked. Enchantress named monica, who wore a red power blazer.
