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.
Le livre est en Open Access sur le site de l’éditeur : https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7058-5/fantasy-aesthetics/?c=413000117
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: Fantasy between Text and Image
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Aesthetics without Pictures?
Seiten 23 – 36 -
The Visual Realization of Fantastic Worlds in Book Cover Design
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Beautiful and Sublime – and Never Mind the Pointed Ears
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Visualizing the Never-Seen
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The Fantasy Novel as Commodity
Seiten 121 – 142 -
Medievalist Aesthetics and Marketing Strategies
Seiten 143 – 174 -
William Morris’s Medievalist Visual Aesthetics and its Persistence in Fantasy
Seiten 175 – 204 -
Unicorns in Contemporary Popular Culture
Seiten 205 – 216 -
Fantasy Medievalism
Seiten 217 – 238 -
Reception of Medieval Literature in Science Fiction Series
Seiten 239 – 260 -
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

