Magia, miłość, miasto. Prolegomena do źródeł popularności urban fantasy

• Authors: Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk

Title variants

EN

Magic, Love and the City. Foreword to Sources of Urban Fantasy Popularity

Abstracts

EN

The urban fantasy genre is currently receiving increasing attention from audiences and researchers. One of the factors contributing to this is the growing reception of fantasy per se. This is also due to the recent phenomenon of paranormal romance, from which – to some extent – urban fantasy is growing and emulating. The combination of fantasy, detective and romance plots and the emphasis on urbanity allows the use of a variety of pop culture tropes and motifs. In this article, I point to these several reasons for the growing popularity of urban fantasy

Keywords

PL

fantastyka miejska; romans paranormalny; Ilona Andrews; miejskość; kryminał

EN

urban fantasy; paranormal romance; Ilona Andrews; urbanity; decetive story

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Colloquia Litteraria
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 87-102

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk

• Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN w Krakowie

• https://orcid.org/0000000175469581

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/cl.2022.32.1.5

Biblioteka Nauki

20440054