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Meloniki i rewolwery albo utopiec na bicyklu. O (retro)industrialnej adaptacji konwencji urban fantasy

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Zielonka K.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
29-47
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It is not a coincidence that urban fantasy is being identified with modern, futuristic metropolises. On its streets, two worlds are juxtaposed: the real and the magical. Unlike the first one, the latter is concealed in shadows, hiding elves, vampires, and other magical creatures from the watchful eyes of ordinary citizens. Only a handful of informed humans have the right to step into this world, which is presented only to the select few. The author of the article Guns and Hats, or a Drowner on a Bicycle: On the (Retro)Industrial Adaptation of Urban Fantasy Subgenre distinguishes between three main tro­pes of the eponymous convention: a presence of the city, a coexistence of magical and empirical world, and an influence of organisations guarding the secret of the otherworld. All three mentioned tropes are exemplified in two contemporary fantasy novels—Adam Przechrzta’s Adept (The Adept) and Charlie Fletcher’s The Oversight, both set in the nineteenth-century fictionalised reality, which bears resemblance to urban fantasy subgenre. In the end, nineteenth-century city turns out to be the best locale to set a fantasy story that addresses the primary sense of urbanization.
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Wokół definicji fantastyki miejskiej

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Mannolini-Winwood S., Maj K. M.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
29-47
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Fantasy literature in the 1980s underwent a revisionist change, which resulted in the emergence of a number of subgenres that challenged the dominant Tolkien model of fantasy writing. One such subgenre, which continues in popularity today, is urban fantasy. Urban fantasy is distinguished by real-world urban settings unsettled by the presence of the supernatural and the non-rational. The classification of the subgenre has predominantly been commercial or industry-based, with little critical or theoretical evaluation undertaken to define or establish its parameters. Within a limited frame of refe­rence the article Theorizing the Emergent Subgenre of Urban Fantasy aims at offering a classificatory framework that identifies the distinctive elements of urban fantasy to further the generic understanding of unique fantasy subgenres.
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Późne lato” Johna Crowleya jako postmodernistyczna wizja procesualnej koncepcji tożsamości

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Gancarczyk M.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
155-175
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The article John Crowley’s “Engine Summer”: A Postmodern Vision of the Processual Construction of Identity analyses the eponymous novel as pivoted around the narrative’s role in constructing both individual and collective identity. Drawing from Mieke Bal’s narrative theory, as well as a number of establi­shed (such as paratextuality) and emerging theoretical concepts (Piotr Kubiński’s emersion), Gancarczyk emphasises the multifacetedness of novelistic references, including the stereotypisation of the Other and top-down control of social relationships. Furthermore, Engine Summer is interpreted he­re as drawing the reader’s attention to the medium itself and to the embodied text which co-creates narrative identity, allowing for its inscription and transmission—an idea literally realised in a postapocalyptic world of the novel. Finally, Gancarczyk shows how Campbell’s concept of monomyth reverberates in Crowley’s narrative, proving pivotal for the overall interpretation, indicating the active role of the medium and narrative subjectivity in constructing the meaning.
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Inny Zagrzeb. Transformacje obrazu miasta w chorwackiej prozie fantastycznej po 1991 roku

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Wojtaszek A.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
109-119
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Croatian speculative fiction in the last quarter of the century has been dominated by the city of Zagreb. There are three anthologies depicting the capital of Croatia and visions of its future: Zagreb 2004 (1995), Zagreb 2014 (1998) and Zagreb 2094 (2004). Also, in Croatian dystopian fiction, the popularity of which has grown rapidly since 2010, the city becomes a metaphor for the problem of exclusion and deep inequalities between the centre and the periphery. The changes in the literary image of Zagreb over the last twen­ty-five years illustrate not only the changing perception of an urban space and different ways of experiencing the city by writers, but also depict the evolution of speculative fiction in Croatia by distinguishing its most important elements: the growth of the importance of local motifs and places, as well as blurring the rigid genre boundaries and the evolution towards the so-called slipstream fiction. Thanks to the analysis of literary images of Zagreb, questions about the attitude of fantasy literature of that time towards the main contemporary issues can be raised. The article finally offers a possibility to define either the subversive or conciliatory character of fantasy works in the context of the most dominant ideologies of that time.
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Definiując urban fantasy i romans paranormalny. Przekraczanie granic gatunków, mediów, a także siebie i innych w nowych nadprzyrodzonych światach

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McLennon L. M., Olkusz K.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
65-95
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on-existent before the late 1980s, in recent years urban fantasy / paranormal romance has become the prevailing form of the monstrous Gothic in popular culture. In little more than two decades, urban fantasy has evolved from striking new genre innovations, coming to constitute a set of nowfamiliar genre conventions. Yet while urban fantasy has risen meteorically in popularity, especially in the last decade, it remains surprisingly understudied as a coherent genre. McLennon in the article Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds provides a clear definition and history of urban fantasy / paranormal romance as a genre. She argues that this genre is both formally and thematically concerned with destabilising new Gothic boundaries—boundaries of genre, of media, of self and Other. Finally, McLennon suggests that these formal and thematic challenges to boundaries offer one explanation for this genre’s broad popularity. The article thus seeks to provide a platform from which we can better analyse and understand both this genre as a whole, and its individual texts, across a variety of media.
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Literatura Niewidocznego — wizje i rewizje urban fantasy

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Ekman S., Taylor A. I., Borowska-Szerszun S., Maj K. M., Szymczak-Maciejczyk B.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
177-188
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A discussion Literature of the Unseen—Visions and (Re)visions of Urban Fantasy collects theoretical reflections upon the subgenres of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, along with a brief commentary on the body of text representative for both conventions. Participants include „Creatio Fantasti­ca” editors—Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, Krzysztof M. Maj, and Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk—as well as renowned experts in the field of fantasy studies: Stefan Ekman, author of the first monograph of fantasy map-making, Here Be Dragons. Exploring Fantasy Maps & Settings (2013), and Audrey Taylor, author of Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-building (2017).
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Urban fantasy — literatura Niewidocznego

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Ekman S., Wąsowicz M.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
7-27
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This article analyses the nature of urban fantasy by aggregating the claims, suggestions, and observations made by several different accounts of what urban fantasy is. These accounts comprise six scholarly sources and four sources written by people who are producers and purveyors of urban fantasy. An eleventh “account” is made up of the impressions conveyed by a vast number of book covers identified through Google Image Search. These eleven accounts are analysed with regard to their views on worlds and settings, cities and urbanity, central characters, and the sources of fantastic elements. Finally, the article presents how three major threads in the accounts reveal that urban fantasy has a central, thematic concern with the Unseen. This Unseen is largely related to a social Other that portrays unpleasant aspects of urban life, such as criminality, homelessness, addiction, prostitution, and physical and sexual abuse.
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Miasta kanibalistyczne. Poczwarne ciała miejskie we współczesnej fantasy

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Gomel E., Olkusz K.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
49-64
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Cannibal Cities: Monstrous Urban Bodies in Contemporary Fantasy
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Fantastyczny tygiel. Synkretyzm gatunkowy i kulturowy w cyklu urban fantasy Bena Aaronovitcha „Rzeki Londynu”

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Borowska-Szerszun S.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
121-136
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The article A Fantastic Crucible: Genological and Cultural Syncretism in Ben Aaronovitch Urban Fantasy Series “Rivers of London” explores generic and cultural syncretism in the eponymous cycle. Having defined urban fantasy, the author proceeds to place emphasis on the overwhelming heterogeneity adopted within the genre, which suggests its openness to various influences, transformations and modifications. In this particular case the elements of urban fantasy and the criminal novel have been successfully incorporated to create a harmonious whole. Examining the vision of a city of London as a melting pot, Borowska-Szerszun argues that the fantastic level of the text has been construed as just one more component of multicultural London, in which different cultures, nationalities and religions meet. Aaronovitch’s cycle is shown, therefore, as breaking the predominance of whiteness in the fantasy genre, and introducing, instead, social and cultural diversity, which reveals the potential of urban fantasy to deal with difficult issues of our times and provide a valid commentary about contemporary reality.
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Społeczeństwo, jednostka i obcość w kontekście nowoczesności i płynnej nowoczesności. Analiza „The Shape of Water” Guillermo del Toro inspirowana myślą Zygmunta Baumana

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Magdziarz W.
Creatio Fantastica
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2018
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issue 1(58)
121-136
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The article Society, Individual, and Alienness in the Context of Modernity and Liquid Modernity. The analysis of Guillermo del Toro’s „The Shape of Water” Inspired by Zygmunt Bauman’s Thought analyses Guillermo del Toro’s eponymous movie, addressing Bauman’s theories of modernity, liquid modernity, and the place of the Other in the society. The issues depicted in the Oscar-winning film shall be examined as particularly relevant to the contemporaneous society’s turbulent problems and anxieties—and, at the same time, to the subgenre of urban fantasy, similarily steeped in the familiar urban space despite its supernatural tone. What remains unanswered, however, is whether Bauman’s theory has been employed purposefully (even if subconsciously) by the director, or whether it might be so deeply anchored in the everyday discourse that it has become non-negligible in any contemporary social debate.
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Decolonizing the Anthropocene: Reading Charles de Lint’s "Widdershins"

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Łaszkiewicz W.
Acta Neophilologica
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2020
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vol. XXII/2
161-172
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This article discusses the motif of memory which can be noticed in Vyazemsky’s late poetry: poems written in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. Peter Vyazemsky was a poet, literary critic, and letter writer appreciated for his talent not only in Russia but also in Poland. In his late poetry Vyazemsky recalls his close friends, his beloved mother as well as places he visited during journeys abroad. The poet presents his thoughts about his own life, ancestors, and human life in general. The poems are strongly influenced by the ideas of Romanticism.
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Polska i Polacy w dylogii Siergieja Łukjanienki Brudnopis, Czystopis

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Zywert A.
Acta Polono-Ruthenica
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2017
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issue 22/1
51-62
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The research material in this work is the dilogy of Sergey Lukyanenko Rough Draft (Черновик, 2005) and Final Draft (Чистовик, 2007). In the first part (Rough Draft) the author focuses on the image of modern Russia, while in the second part (Final Draft) he expands his observations into Poland and its people. The image presented by the author notably duplicates ethnic and cultural stereotypes about Poland and Poles, fixed in the common consciousness of Russians. As a result, despite the objectivity declared by the author, it is difficult to consider the discussed novels a breakthrough in the context of the process of overcoming mutual prejudices between the neighboring nations on the basis of the literature.
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Magia, miłość, miasto. Prolegomena do źródeł popularności urban fantasy

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Szymczak-Maciejczyk B.
Colloquia Litteraria
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2022
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vol. 32
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issue 1
87-102
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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
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Polskie urban fantasy. Szkic o mieście i miejskości

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Szymczak-Maciejczyk B.
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica
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2021
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vol. 9
183-196
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Urban fantasy is attracting more attention from readers, but scientific papers about it still do not appear often enough. The aim of the present article is to specify where urban fantasy originates from, what its constitutive features are, and how this subgenre is changing the way the city is described. Genre similarities with crime fiction, a change in the city paradigm, and the influence of urban legends on urban fantasy are indicated. Moreover, the relationship between the heyday of urban fantasy and the spatial turn is outlined.
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Fantastyka miejska cieszy się coraz większym zainteresowaniem czytelników, pozostając jednocześnie na marginesie badań naukowych. Artykuł miał na celu skonkretyzowanie, z czego wywodzi się fantastyka miejska oraz jakie są jej cechy konstytutywne, a także jak ten podgatunek wpływa na zmianę opisywania miasta. Wskazano na zbieżności gatunkowe z kryminałem, zmianę paradygmatu miasta, wpływ legend miejskich na urban fantasy. Nakreślono związek rozkwitu fantastyki miejskiej z obserwowanym od kilku dekad zwrotem przestrzennym.
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Цена продужетка живота. Митолошке фантазије и психологија у роману Новендіалия украјинске књижевнице Марине Сокољан

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Ajdačić D.
Filologia Polska. Roczniki Naukowe Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
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2018
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vol. 4
417-426
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The novel entitled Novendialia (2008) by a Ukrainian authoress Maryna Sokolian (1979) with elements of a detective story and urban horror tells about fights between life energy kidnappers and its defenders employed by the Night Town Hall. In the text religious and psychologic aspects of various allusions are considered as well as authoress’ implications of fictitious mythicalmagical system from the point of view of religion, philosophy, psychology (especially psychoanalysis). The price of life and death proves that the writer fits in the type of a novel on selffulfilment, sacrifice and passions.
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Powieść Novendialia (2008) ukraińskiej autorki Maryny Sokolian (ur. 1979) z elementami detektywistycznymi i horroru miejskiego opowiada o bitwach pomiędzy porywaczami energii życiowej a jej obrońcami ze służby Nocnego Magistratu. W tekście rozważane są religijne i psychologiczne aspekty rozmaitych aluzji oraz implikacje wyobrażonego autorskiego systemu mitycznomagicznego z punktu widzenia religii, filozofii, psychologii (zwłaszcza psychoanalizy). Cena życia i śmierci dowodzi, że pisarka wpisuje się w typ powieści o samorealizacji, poświęceniu i namiętnościach.
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