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  1. Fantasy television is a genre of television programming featuring elements of the fantastic, often including magic, supernatural forces, or exotic fantasy worlds. Fantasy television programs are often based on tales from mythology and folklore , or are adapted from fantasy stories in other media.

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    Many works of fantasy use magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Magic, magic practitioners (sorcerers, witches and so on) and magical creaturesare common in many of these worlds. An identifying trait of fantasy is the author's use of narrative elements that do not have to rely on history or nature to be coh...

    Early history

    While some elements of the supernatural and the fantastic were a part of literature from its beginning, fantasy elements occur throughout ancient religious texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. The ancient Babylonian creation epic, the Enûma Eliš, in which the god Marduk slays the goddess Tiamat, contains the theme of a cosmic battle between good and evil, which is characteristic of the modern fantasy genre. Genres of romantic and fantasy literature existed in ancient Egypt. The Tales of the C...

    Modern fantasy

    Although pre-dated by John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River (1841), the history of modern fantasy literature is usually said to begin with George MacDonald, the Scottish author of such novels as Phantastes (1858) and The Princess and the Goblin (1872); the former is widely considered to be the first fantasy novel ever written for adults. MacDonald was a major influence on both J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The other major fantasy author of this era was William Morris, an English poet...

    Several fantasy film adaptations have achieved blockbuster status, most notably The Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, and the Harry Potter films, two of the highest-grossing film seriesin cinematic history. Fantasy role-playing games cross several different media. Dungeons & Dragons was the first tabletop role-playing game a...

    By theme

    Fantasy encompasses numerous subgenrescharacterized by particular themes or settings, or by an overlap with other literary genres or forms of speculative fiction. They include the following:

    By the function of the fantastic in the narrative

    In her 2008 book Rhetorics of Fantasy, Farah Mendlesohn proposes the following taxonomy of fantasy, as "determined by the means by which the fantastic enters the narrated world",while noting that there are fantasies that fit none of the patterns: Portal fantasy 1. In "portal-quest fantasy" or "portal fantasy", a fantasy world is entered, behind which the fantastic elements remain contained. A portal-quest fantasy typically tends to be a quest-type narrative, whose main challenge is navigating...

    Publishers, editors, authors, artists, and scholars with interest in the fantasy genre get together yearly at the World Fantasy Convention. The World Fantasy Awardsare presented at the convention. The first WFC was held in 1975 and it has occurred every year since. The convention is held at a different city each year. Additionally, many science fic...

    Fantasy is studied in a number of disciplines including English and other language studies, cultural studies, comparative literature, history and medieval studies. Some works make political, historical and literary connections between medievalism and popular culture. French literature theorists as Tzvetan Todorov argues that the fantastic is a limi...

    Apter, T. E. Fantasy Literature: An Approach to Reality(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982)
    Brooke-Rose, Christine, A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
    Capoferro, Riccardo, Empirical Wonder: Historicizing the Fantastic, 1660–1760(Bern: Peter Lang, 2010)
    Cornwell, Neil, The Literary Fantastic: From Gothic to Postmodernism(New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990)
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