Revisiting imaginary worlds : a subcreation studies anthology / edited by Mark J. P. Wolf

Published:: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Physical Description:: xxx, 375 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Wolf, Mark J. P.

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Machine generated contents note: Worlds On The Rise -- 1.Why Worlds Now? / Marie-Laure Ryan -- 2.Fictional World-Building as Ritual, Drama, and Medium / Lily Alexander -- 3.The Past as an Imaginary World: The Case of Medievalism / Dimitra Fimi -- Structure -- 4.The Subcreation of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and How It Became Transmedial Culture / Lars Konzack -- 5.Secondary World Infrastructures and Tabletop Fantasy Role-Playing Games / Neal Baker -- 6.Battlestar Galactica and Caprica: Using Religion to Create Imagined Worlds / Erica Hurwitz Andrus -- 7.Religious Impulse in Video Games: Implications for World-Building / Edward Castronova -- 8.Minecraft:Transitional Objects and Transformational Experiences in an Imaginary World / Lori Landay -- Practice -- 9.L. Frank Baum's A New Wonderland: The Beginning of It All / Michael O. Riley -- 10."All Over the Map": Building (and Rebuilding) Oz / Henry Jenkins -- 11.Discovering the Planiverse / A. K. Dewdney -- 12.A Thousand Stories in a Day: Building Rilao and Reimagining Lagos / Ann Pendleton-Jullian -- Reception -- 13.`The First Step into a Smaller World': The Transmedia Economy of Star Wars / Matthew Freeman -- 14.The Enchantment of Visiting Imaginary Worlds and `Being There': Brand Fandom and the Tertiary World of Media Tourism / Matt Hills -- 15.The Importance of Overflow and Chunking in World-Building and the Experiencing of Imaginary Worlds / Mark J. P. Wolf -- 16.Language Makes and Breaks Worlds: China Mieville's Embassytown / Gerard Hynes -- 17.Destroying Arcadia: The Construction and Deconstruction of Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Jennifer Harwood-Smith -- 18.Bookland: Building England in a Time Travel Universe in Connie Willis's to Say Nothing of the Dog / Helen Conrad-O'Briain -- 19.Blocks and Buildings: Virtual Tangibility in Video Game Secondary Worlds / Kevin Schut -- Appendix -- Worlds Apart: Toward a Canon of Imaginary Worlds / Mark J. P. Wolf.

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9781138942059 hardback
1138942057 hardback
9781315673363 electronic book

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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