This essay examines the relationship between genre and franchise though a discussion of the Dragonlance series, a collection of pre-fabricated adventures for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons adapted into a series of novels. Because of the sheer number of these novels (approximately 200), the fiction set in the AD&D campaign setting known as Krynn far surpasses the scope of the original adventures in terms of narrative, character, geographical location, and historical situation. The sprawling nature of the novels, which implicitly seek to be an exhaustive account of Krynn and everything that happens there, would make Dragonlance one of the longest series in the history of generic fantasy. However, as I demonstrate, the development of the Dragonlance narrative takes place in the context of a franchise that turns away from the conventions of genre fantasy. The double origin of Dragonlance as both a setting for adventures in the AD&D game system and as a series of fantasy novels creates both the mechanistic feel...
本文通过讨论《Dragonlance》系列(游戏邦注:《Advanced Dungeons and Dragons》改编成一系列小说)来探讨类型与特许经营之间的关系。由于这些小说的数量庞大(大约200本)，在《AD&D》战役背景中被称为Krynn的小说在叙事、角色、地理位置和历史情境方面远远超过了原始冒险的范围。这些小说的蔓生性质，含蓄地试图详尽地描述克莱恩和那里发生的一切，将使《龙枪》成为普通奇幻史上最长的系列之一。然而，正如我所展示的，《Dragonlance》故事的发展发生在一个背离传统类型幻想的系列背景下。《Dragonlance》的双重起源既是《AD&D》游戏系统中的冒险场景，也是一系列奇幻小说，创造了一种机制感……
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The global popularity of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games has sparked a wide variety of reactions: schools have introduced the books to their curriculum, there are numerous summer camps based on the series, and academic anthologies have emerged focusing on the trend of adolescent dystopias. Because of The Hunger Games’ “merely generic” narrative and its adaptation to Hollywood blockbuster, however, critical examinations of the trilogy so far have been primarily confined to discussions of young adult fiction and adaptation theory. Resisting such readings, this essay will focus on the film’s popularity in the context of Thailand, exploring how genres can be a useful starting point for exploring both the local effects of globalization as well as the material conditions we might share across diverse sociocultural contexts.
{"title":"The Dark side of Hope","authors":"M. Kurtz","doi":"10.3828/EXTR.2017.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EXTR.2017.13","url":null,"abstract":"The global popularity of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games has sparked a wide variety of reactions: schools have introduced the books to their curriculum, there are numerous summer camps based on the series, and academic anthologies have emerged focusing on the trend of adolescent dystopias. Because of The Hunger Games’ “merely generic” narrative and its adaptation to Hollywood blockbuster, however, critical examinations of the trilogy so far have been primarily confined to discussions of young adult fiction and adaptation theory. Resisting such readings, this essay will focus on the film’s popularity in the context of Thailand, exploring how genres can be a useful starting point for exploring both the local effects of globalization as well as the material conditions we might share across diverse sociocultural contexts.","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"255-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/EXTR.2017.13","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42416989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present","authors":"Dominick M. Grace","doi":"10.5860/choice.51-6011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.51-6011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47223706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hokey Religions: Star Wars and Star Trek in the Age of Reboots","authors":"G. Canavan","doi":"10.3828/extr.2017.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2017.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"153-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/extr.2017.10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47002706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia","authors":"R. Tally","doi":"10.5860/choice.189016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.189016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42143489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction","authors":"Jason P. Vest","doi":"10.5860/choice.186270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.186270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43236346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gothic Science Fiction: 1818 to the Present","authors":"D. Wilson","doi":"10.5860/choice.193467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.193467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46149078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Guilty Pleasures: Late Capitalism and Mere Genre","authors":"G. Canavan, B. Robertson","doi":"10.3828/EXTR.2017.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EXTR.2017.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"123-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/EXTR.2017.8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49545403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nuclear Family: Blondie and the End of History","authors":"S. Boluk","doi":"10.3828/EXTR.2017.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/EXTR.2017.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"209-253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43206702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Dana and Kevin travel to Maryland to try to find records of the events they experienced, but find little evidence. Their trip mirrors one Butler herself made in the 1970s to research the history behind her novel, although Butler found a great deal more than Dana did. This essay retraces Butler’s steps in research on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and in Baltimore at the Maryland Historical Society, speculating on what records she found that allowed her to embody in her novel her desire to make readers feel history, and exploring how she came to see African-American history as a story of heroism as survival.
{"title":"You've Found No Records","authors":"Jane Donawerth, K. Scally","doi":"10.3828/extr.2017.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2017.2","url":null,"abstract":"In Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Dana and Kevin travel to Maryland to try to find records of the events they experienced, but find little evidence. Their trip mirrors one Butler herself made in the 1970s to research the history behind her novel, although Butler found a great deal more than Dana did. This essay retraces Butler’s steps in research on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and in Baltimore at the Maryland Historical Society, speculating on what records she found that allowed her to embody in her novel her desire to make readers feel history, and exploring how she came to see African-American history as a story of heroism as survival.","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":"58 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/extr.2017.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45209284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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