Newsgroup: it.arti.fantasy
Titolo: Alcune definizioni di fantasy [in inglese]

The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus:
- fiction containing highly imaginative, grotesque, or supernatural 
elements.
- a fictitious, sometimes incredible, imaginative story, often involving 
giants, ogres, elves, or other magical creatures and characters.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
- Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition:
- imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque 
characters -- called also fantasy fiction.
Glossary of Literary Terms:
- A kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries 
of known reality. An example would be J.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
Wikipedia - Fantasy:
In literature Fantasy is a form of fiction, encompassing novels, short 
stories, role-playing games, and movies, that is most typically set in a 
world quite different from the Earth, often replete with mythical creatures 
and magical powers. As a genre, fantasy is both associated and contrasted 
with science fiction and horror fiction. All three genres feature elements 
of the fantastic, of making radical departures from reality or radical 
speculations about what reality might be like, or might have been like. 
"Fantasy" seems reserved for fiction that features magic, brave knights, 
damsels in distress, mythical beasts, and quests. As such, it has a long 
and distinguished history, with beginnings in Greek mythology and Roman 
mythology (one thinks especially of Homer's Odyssey) and other epics such 
as Beowulf, and a very broad basis in medieval romance. The legend of King 
Arthur, with its heavy dose of magic, swordplay, romance, and clear-cut 
moral issues, is another clear precursor of contemporary fantasy. 
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, much fantasy was published in the 
same magazines as science fiction (and written by the same authors, 
largely). After the phenomenal popularity, in the mid-20th century, of J. 
R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as of C. S. 
Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series, 
fantasy writing received a modern rebirth, often patterned after these 
seminal works and, like them, borrowing elements from myth, epic, and 
medieval romance.
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Se veramente cercate qualcosa guardate nelle vostre mani, e` li` che si 
trova la vera definizione di magia.

 medieval romance.
GurthNaur

 accurata come creazione.
Ehm, considerando come funziona la Wikipedia (chiunque puo' andar li' ed
edtiare un articolo o creare una nuova definizione, basta che si registri)
io non farei troppo affidamento sulla sua definizione...
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Ricardo Reis

 registri) io non farei troppo affidamento sulla sua definizione...
Effettivamente il valore di una definizione di WIkipedia sta proprio nel 
fatto che chiunque puo` modificarla: dopo un tempo sufficientemente lungo, 
si giungera` per approssimazioni successive ad una definizione che vada 
mediamente bene a tutti.
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 mediamente bene a tutti.
Come dire che dopo 40 anni di democrazia Berlusconi č la sintesi del meglio
che l'Italia puň avere :)))
BJ

 meglio che l'Italia puň avere :)))
Forse e` la sintesi del meglio che l'Italia puo` meritarsi.
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