What is fantasy?
Fantasy is a genre of imaginative, fictional literature, often involving magic or made-up settings.
Fantasy
Last Updated on October 14, 2022, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 85
Fantasy is a genre of imaginative, fictional literature, often involving magic or made-up settings. Fantasy differs from other genres of literature in that its stories include elements that place them outside the realm of possibility or reality.
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Fantasy stems from the Greek word phantasia, meaning “imagination, appearance,” from phantazein (“to make visible”), which in turn comes from phaos (“light”).
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Famous works of fantasy include Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series and C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series.
see: fable, science fiction
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