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Originally Posted by davem
Gaiman does not write epic fantasy in the Tolkienian sense, but explores ideas & themes from myth, folklore, contemporary fiction, modern culture. His stories take place on the borderland between, if you like the personal & the Collective unconscious.
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I suppose it all depends on how one interprets 'epic.' This might be true for most of Gaiman's work, but I wonder if
Stardust isn't more traditionally fantasy a la Tolkien.
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Originally Posted by Bethberry
Does fantasy involve a major reimagining of language, so that it is not merely descriptive of a different reality but actually implies that reality? Or is this simply a feature of the masters of the genre? (if I'm making much sense here)
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So then both Fantasy and Science Fiction partake of this same incantatory Green Sun. Do the two part in the "satisfaction of primordal human desires"?