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Fantasy

Overview

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or magical elements, often including completely imaginary realms and creatures.

The genre's roots lie in fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century onward, it has expanded into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animation, and video games.

The expression fantastic literature is often used for this genre by Anglophone literary critics. An archaic spelling for the term is phantasy.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Fantasy

• Robert A. Heinlein
• Ray Bradbury
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
• Russell Blackford

Related ideas

• Aristophanes
• History
• Parable
• Speculative fiction
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Apuleius
• Islamic world
• New Testament
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Platonism
• Old Testament
• Plato
• Panchatantra
• Political science
• Science fiction
• The Lord of the Rings
• William Morris
• United States
• Zeus
• Comparative literature
• Ovid
• Cultural studies
• Beowulf
• New Culture Movement

Place in the tradition

Part of Myth.

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