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Opis bibliograficzny
Allotopia: a world-building narrative / Krzysztof M. MAJ // W: The Palgrave handbook of global fantasy / eds. Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch. — Cham : Springer, cop. 2023. — ISBN: 978-3-031-26396-5; e-ISBN: 978-3-031-26397-2. — S. 47–60. — Bibliogr., Abstr. — Publikacja dostępna online od: 2023-06-08
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Dane bibliometryczne
| ID BaDAP | 150300 |
|---|---|
| Data dodania do BaDAP | 2024-01-05 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-031-26397-2_4 |
| Rok publikacji | 2023 |
| Typ publikacji | fragment książki |
| Otwarty dostęp |  |
| Wydawca | Springer |
Abstract
In this chapter I propose to redefine the notion of allotopia—first introduced to narrative theory by Umberto Eco in the essay I mondi della fantascienza as a part of a larger classification of fantastic worlds—for the purposes of world-building and fantasy studies. Understanding allotopia, etymologically, as “an alien world” or “another world,” Eco argues it to be a narrative pivoted around the creation of a world “structurally different [strutturalmente diverso]” (Eco, Sugli specchi e altri saggi 174), a concept reverberating in an increasingly acknowledged claim that contemporary “storytelling has become the art of world building” (Jenkins 114). What remains challenging, however, is the way writers, designers, and world-builders alike can achieve this level of “structural difference” while simultaneously adhering to a wide variety of other important features of fantastic storytelling such as cognitive estrangement, willing suspension of disbelief, or immersion. This essay is meant to provide a new narratological framework for understanding such ways of allotopian world-building, with particular emphasis on its key aspect of otherness that distinguishes the allotopia from other types of worlds, such as utopia, dystopia, heterotopia, atopia, or metatopia.
