Parution : Fantasy Aesthetics: Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages

Hans Rudolf Velten & Joseph Imorde, Fantasy Aesthetics: Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages, Bielefeld / transcript Verlag “The Middle Ages and Popular Cultures”, 2025

Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons and mages follow mythical archetypes and develop pictorial aesthetics of fantasy, completed by gothic fonts, maps and page layout that refer to medieval manuscripts and chronicles. The contributors to this volume explore the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.

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  1. Frontmatter

    Seiten 1 – 4
  2. Contents

    Seiten 5 – 6
  3. Preface

    Seiten 7 – 8
  4. Introduction: Fantasy between Text and Image

    Seiten 9 – 22
  5. Aesthetics without Pictures?

    Seiten 23 – 36
  6. The Visual Realization of Fantastic Worlds in Book Cover Design

    Seiten 37 – 50
  7. Beautiful and Sublime – and Never Mind the Pointed Ears

    Seiten 51 – 80
  8. Visualizing the Never-Seen

    Seiten 81 – 120
  9. The Fantasy Novel as Commodity

    Seiten 121 – 142
  10. Medievalist Aesthetics and Marketing Strategies

    Seiten 143 – 174
  11. William Morris’s Medievalist Visual Aesthetics and its Persistence in Fantasy

    Seiten 175 – 204
  12. Unicorns in Contemporary Popular Culture

    Seiten 205 – 216
  13. Fantasy Medievalism

    Seiten 217 – 238
  14. Reception of Medieval Literature in Science Fiction Series

    Seiten 239 – 260
  15. Biobibliographical Information

    Seiten 261 – 264


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
maudperezsimon (5 janvier 2026). Parution : Fantasy Aesthetics: Visualizing Myth and Middle Ages. Modernités médiévales. Consulté le 8 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/15fxl