My essay is premised on the observation that while canonical theories of fantastic genre fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror) proposed by critics such as Tzetvan Todorov and Darko Suvin center on epistemic aporia, most recent examples in popular culture reject fundamental difference, alterity, and the unknown in favor of postmodern play within a limited set of generic conventions. I argue that today, tabletop roleplaying game systems (RPGs) provide a superior hermeneutic for understanding how the fantasy genre operates in mass culture than does traditional genre theory. After providing a brief overview of the historical development of fantasy gaming out of wargaming and mass market fantasy literature in the 1970s, I show how RPGs formalized fantasy’s generic tropes into a modular system that enabled participants to produce fictions across and between genres. Through a reading of Poul Anderson’s use of the “multiverse” trope in his novel Three Hearts and Three Lions, the notion that reality consists ...
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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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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