"Which way? Which way?": The Fantastical Inversions of Alice in Wonderland. Once Alice falls through the rabbit-hole into Wonderland, the reality that surrounds her undergoes profound change while her strategies for dealing with that reality do not.
Fantasy world based on Alice in Wonderland for architectural fairytale. Fairytale story Alice in Wonderland becomes the backdrop for a dystopian world filled with fantastical structures in this competition-winning project by writer Kevin Wang and artist Nicholas O'Leary.
Wang and O'Leary, who studied together in New Zealand but are now based in England and Norway, won the competition run by New York organisation Blank Space to develop a modern fairytale set within a fantasy architectural environment. Penned as the final chapter to Lewis Carroll's famous story, Chapter Thirteen imagines "a bucolic yet futuristic world" where a grown-up Alice is battling to escape a wonderland that has become confining and frightening.
Fantastical tale brings art to life on screen. Two little boys cower in a corner, a huge red-eyed rabbit peering over the wall behind them.
The scene is equal parts menacing and fantastical - is the rabbit on the hunt for the boys or is its eye set on that little red sock dangling in the foreground? "Myths, Stories & Reality" Myths, Stories & Reality Joel Dubois (c) 2008--for free, fully cited distribution only On one level, myths are simply stories.
This introductory essay explains the features common to all stories, stressing that while the storyteller's words and the images they conjure up may be fleeting, their stories are often long-lived, deeply influencing the flesh-and-blood individuals who hear them, and thus by extension also the social groups to which individuals belong. However, understanding what is distinctive about mythic storytelling (often collectively referred to as "mythology") also requires grasping what distinguishes myths from other types of stories. The Drought of Environmental Fantasy. In honor of Earth Day, I thought I would write a column about ecological fantasies, about fantasy novels and stories that explore environmental and ecological themes.
I prepared, as I usually do, to come up with a list of books off the top of my head and... I couldn’t think of any. Science Fiction is full of books dealing with the environment. Not always on our planet, of course, but there are plenty of examples. My favorite novel, Dune, deals heavily with the environment on Arrakis and what that means for the planet. Tales of the Southern Mythic — The Stories of Storytelling. I think a new sub-genre is being born.
I’m calling it “Southern Mythic,” and right now I have three pieces for the canon: the 2012 indie film Beasts of the Southern Wild, HBO’s hit show True Detective, and the recently-released novel Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer. If you haven’t experienced them yet, all three are worth your time. So what is Southern Mythic? I’ll start with the Mythic. Myths are the places where we as humans try to face the forces of this world that are larger than us. The Uncanny and the Fantastic. The Uncanny and the Fantastic The German word "unheimlich" is considered untranslatable; our rough English equivalent, "uncanny", is itself difficult to define.
This indescribable quality is actually an integral part of our understanding of the uncanny experience, which is terrifying precisely because it can not be adequately explained. 9 Bizarre Places That Seem to be Plucked from Fairy Tales. Who hasn’t fantasized about living in a fantasy world as a kid, a place filled with magic, adventure and awe-inspiring vistas that are unlike anything we are used to.
Unfortunately we will never be able to see such bizarre places with our own god given eyes outside of a videogame or a movie… or can we? Below you will find 9 weird places on earth that seem to be plucked straight from fairy tale books and are just a flight ticket away!
Fairy Tale. Alf Seegert - Teaching - Faculty Profile - The University of Utah. Connecting narratives to nature, culture, and self. The Collected Jorkens. Volume One, reviewed by Henry Wessells. Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand, reviewed by Nic Clarke. 29 May 2013 Across a twenty-five-year writing career, Elizabeth Hand has amassed a formidable reputation and an impressive number of awards.
No fewer than seven novellas by her have been shortlisted for World Fantasy Awards, and three of them went on to win. Errantry—her fourth collection of short fiction, after Last Summer at Mars Hill (1998), Bibliomancy (2003), and Saffron and Brimstone (2006)—gathers ten stories she published between 2006 and 2011, leaving out the (WFA-winning) novella Illyria (PS Publishing, 2006). Enchanted forest. The forest can feature as a place of threatening danger, or one of refuge, or a chance at adventure.
Folktales[edit] Indeed, in Grimm's Fairy Tales, the hero always goes into the forest. It is not itself enchanted, but it contains enchantments and, being outside normal human experience, acts as a place of transformation.[11] The German fairy tale has an unusual tendency to take place in the forest; even such neighboring countries as France or Italy are less like to have fairy tales situated in the forest.[12] High fantasy. Genre overview[edit] High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the real, or "primary" world.