LANDSCAPE IN THE GENRE OF FANTASY
Abstract
Key words: fantasy, landscape, dominant types of landscape, descriptions and functions.
The article examines the characteristics of landscape descriptions in the new genre of popular fantasy. The author states that in this genre landscape plays a very important role, permeating the whole body of the narrative and allowing emotionally and psychologically to engage readers into action.
The article on the example of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” distinguishes dominant types of landscape descriptions, typical of fantasy genre. These are landscape dominant (mountain description), flora dominant (description of the forest), hydro-dominant (description of bogs), meteo-dominant (descriptions of fog, rain, thunderstorms, blizzards) astronomic dominants (description of the sun, moon, stars, sky), diurnal and season dominant. Depending on the accompanying elements of these landscapes the author identifies colour-, aroma-, background-dominants and contaminated landscapes.
The article outlines the typical scenery in the genre of fantasy: designation of the place and time of action, story motivation, appellative, poetic framing accentuation, climax, semiotic, textforming. There is a lack of psychological functions typical of realistic works.
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