The tropes of fantasy fiction / Gabrielle Lissauer.

• Preface -- Introduction -- Changing the story -- A matter of perception -- The power of stories -- Magic of fantasy, fantasy of magic -- Not what you think it is -- Heroes and protagonists, villains and antagonists -- No man is an island -- Fairies and dragons and dwarfs, oh my! -- Through the looking glass -- The fundamentals.

• "Comparing various fantasy fiction stories, this book shows that it is not the tropes and clichés that make a story good or bad but how the author applies them. The book also explores the concept of text versus meta-text--when the story's world and character actions contradict the reader's expectations based on the tropes being used"-- 

Ämnesord

Science fiction  -- historia (sao)

Narration (Rhetoric)  (LCSH)

Point of view (Literature)  (LCSH)

Fantasy fiction  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Science fiction  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Speculative fiction  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Fiction  -- Technique. (LCSH)

Fantasy fiction.  (fast)

Narration (Rhetoric)  (fast)

Point of view (Literature)  (fast)

Science fiction.  (fast)

Speculative fiction.  (fast)

Fantasy (litteratur)  -- historia (sao)

Fiction  -- Technique. (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PN3435 (LCC)

809.3/8766 (DDC)