tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post44304207337466690..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: A Taxonomy of FantasyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-8102328740504737532012-04-19T08:39:42.230-05:002012-04-19T08:39:42.230-05:00Another part of my talk will discuss the "tal...Another part of my talk will discuss the "talking animal spectrum" from Richard Scarry to <i>Watership Down</i>. <br /><br />After thinking about <i>Freddy the Pig</i>, I decided those were a variation on the "shadow fantasy" model. Instead of the protagonist discovering the concealed magical society, the stories are set entirely within that society, with the protagonist who emerges (Freddy) trying to protect it from within. <br /><br />I hadn't thought about classifying the <i>Doctor Doolittle</i> books, but think they may work more as science fiction than as fantasy. The good doctor has discovered a new level of knowledge and then discovers new species, but those discoveries are all supposed to be part of the familiar world. The stories play out as logical extensions of that new scientific knowledge, but are they hidden? Those books (and other science fiction based on the premise of new discoveries) are a sort of intrusion fantasy: something new coming into the world the readers know.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-71088930478436186362012-04-19T05:50:07.993-05:002012-04-19T05:50:07.993-05:00Where would you fit the Freddy the Pig books and t...Where would you fit the Freddy the Pig books and the Doctor Doolittle books? Shadow Fantasy? Maybe "Talking Animal Fantasy" needs its own category?ericshanowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08879686211456482942noreply@blogger.com