Other Worlds: The Fantasy Genre
- ISBN-10
- 087972241X
- ISBN-13
- 9780879722418
- Series
- Other Worlds
- Category
- Fantasy fiction
- Pages
- 124
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Publisher
- Popular Press
- Author
- John H. Timmerman
Description
Fantasy permits its readers a certain distance from pragmatic affairs and offers them a clearer insight into them. It offers a parallel reality, which gives us a renewed awareness of what we already know. Fantasy invites the reader to recover a belief which has been beclouded by knowledge, to renew a faith which has been shattered by fact. As the pace of modern life quickens, the fascination for fantasy literature quickens simultaneously.
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