Week 3 ：how does Attebery(1980) define fantasy? Find at least 5 definitions?
Atterbey thinks the fantasy world is like the film ‘The Lord of Rings’. Fantasy is an arbitrary construct with all sorts of imagination.
“Any narrative which includes as a significant part of its make-up some violation of what the author clearly believes to be natural law-that is fantasy.” Fantasy can be made up with around magic objects. The environment can be one of the elements to show fantasy. According the text, except from the objects, characters, events can help us make difference between fantasy and related genres. “Fantasy is a game of sorts, and it demands that one play whole-heartedly, accepting for the moment all rules and turns of the game.” The ‘marvelous’ Is the point of fantasy because all supernatural happenings is unquestionably of fantasy. Fantasy is like ‘fairytale’ more generally termed nonsense or absurdity. Fantasy can be found any of normal and basic things in the life they are happened in normal life such as life, death, good, and evil. This is folktale. “folktale was one of the early genres of folktale.
Attebery, B. (1980). Locating fantasy. In The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guinn (pp. 2-9). Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980
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