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Breivik, Gunnar,
255
–
56n83

Brennan, Andrew,
130
–
31

Brooks, Terry: Magic Kingdom of Landover,
27
,
182
–
83
,
215
; Shannara,
10
,
259n48

Browning, Robert, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,”
196
–
97
,
200
,
207
–
9
,
212

Brust, Steven,
12
,
70
,
72
–
82
,
86
,
93
,
98
,
100
,
220

Butler, Andrew M.,
117

Campbell, Joseph,
72
,
98
–
99

Canavan, Trudy,
Last of the Wilds
,
25
–
26

Card, Orson Scott,
21
,
33

cartographers,
19
,
30
,
38
,
40
,
44
,
50
,
62
; fictional,
31
,
45
,
51
,
54
–
55
; implied,
45
,
51
,
54
–
55
.
See also
mapmakers

Cauldron of Story,
6
–
7
,
219
–
20
,
236n35

Celtic ideas of kingship,
188
,
258n39

center and periphery: in cities,
136
–
37
,
139
–
42
,
146
,
148
,
150
–
51
,
165
–
66
,
174
; of landscapes of evil,
196
,
212
; on
maps,
28
,
31
–
32
,
47
,
51
–
52
,
62
–
64
,
66
; in polders,
112
–
17
,
125
; of the story,
101
,
109
,
117
,
128
,
158
–
59
,
178
,
185
,
205

center.
See
center and periphery

Cherryh, C. J.,
Faery in Shadow
,
71

chōrographica
,
42

Chrétien de Troyes,
Perceval
,
187
,
258n34

Cicero, Marcus Tullius,
131
–
32

cities: Amaz (Goldstein),
190
–
94
; Armada (Miéville),
154
,
162
–
65
; Caras Galadhon (Tolkien),
105
,
108
,
135
–
36
,
138
,
140
–
41
; in fantasy,
129
,
134
–
35
; Instruere (Kirkpatrick),
30
–
32
; Las Vegas (Powers),
188
–
89
; Minas Tirith (Tolkien),
12
,
135
–
41
,
173
–
76
,
218
;as nature/culture interfaces,
12
,
129
,
134
,
161
,
173
; New Crobuzon (Miéville),
12
,
135
,
154
–
62
,
165
–
67
,
173
–
76
,
218
; Newford (de Lint),
12
,
71
,
135
,
141
–
54
,
155
,
159
–
61
,
167
,
173
–
76
,
218
; Ombria (McKillip),
12
,
135
,
166
–
76
,
218
; uncommon in Middle-earth,
58
–
59
,
135
–
36

Clarke, Susanna,
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
,
71

Clute, John,
2
,
90
,
135
,
175
,
233n2
,
241n47
,
249n63
,
250n98
; on polders,
100
,
121
,
125
; on the Ryhope Wood series,
111
,
113
; on thresholds,
68
–
69
,
75
,
77
,
98
; on water margins,
26
,
28
,
173

Cogswell, Theodore, “The Wall Around the World,”
72

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
235n26

Conan the Barbarian,
10
,
15
,
24
,
231
,
240
–
41n46

Conrad, Joseph,
Heart of Darkness
,
43

contours,
39
–
40
,
42
,
242n70
.
See also
hill signs

Cook, Glen,
The Black Company
,
197
–
98
,
212

Cooper, Louise,
Aisling
,
32

Cooper, Rich Paul,
155

Cornish, D. M., Monster-Blood Tattoo/The Foundling's Tale series,
38

crosshatches,
69
,
71
,
75
–
77
,
86
–
87
,
90
,
94

Crowley, John,
Little, Big
,
71

culture: controlling nature,
132
; definitions of,
130
–
33
; feral,
158
,
164
.
See also
Darwinism; nature;
scala naturae
; second nature

damnatio memoriae
,
191
–
92
,
194
,
214

Dante Alighieri,
7
,
14
,
18
,
20
,
74
,
115
,
196
–
97
,
209
,
212

Dark Realms.
See
landscapes of evil

Darwinism,
133

Day, Frank W.,
15
–
16
,
240n43

Dayton, Gail,
The Barbed Rose
,
28

de Lint, Charles,
12
,
71
,
135
,
141
–
55
,
159
–
61
,
167
,
173
–
76
,
218
,
220

Dickerson, Matthew,
141
,
198
,
202
,
261n70

Dickson, Gordon R.,
The Dragon and the George
,
236n34

disbelief,
91
–
92
,
235n26

Discworld.
See
Pratchett, Terry

Divina Commedia
.
See
Dante Alighieri

docemes,
21
–
22
,
31
–
32
,
35
,
39
,
45
,
59
,
67
; definition of,
21

Doležel, Lubomír,
10
,
127

domains, definition of,
10
–
11

Donaldson, Stephen R.,
13
,
28
,
178
,
198
–
99
,
204
–
8
,
210
–
12
,
215

Doob, Penelope Reed,
113
–
14

Duane, Diane,
15

Dunsany, Lord,
The King of Elfland's Daughter
,
71
–
72
,
105

dyadic worlds,
10
,
127

Eco, Umberto,
21
,
41
,
113
–
14

ecocriticism,
3
–
4
.
See also
topofocal

Eddings, David and Leigh: The Belgariad,
259n48
; The Dreamers,
134
; The Mallorean,
28

Elgin, Don D.,
2
,
8
–
9
,
255n83
,
256
–
57n11

Eliot, T. S.,
The Waste Land
,
185
–
86

Elmore, Larry and Robert,
Runes of Autumn
,
41
–
42

empty map space.
See
blank spaces

Ende, Michael,
The Neverending Story
,
92
,
181
–
83
,
215

eucatastrophe,
107
,
179
.
See also
happy ending

Evans, Jonathan,
141
,
198
,
202
,
261n70

evil lands.
See
landscapes of evil

Faerie,
6
,
11
,
71
–
72
,
85
,
219
,
246
–
47n25
,
247n38
; in
Stardust
(Gaiman and Vess),
12
,
82
–
92
,
98
–
100
,
128
; Lothlórien, related to,
101
–
2
,
105
,
109
;in Newford (de Lint),
141
,
143
–
44
,
147
–
148
,
151
; in
War of the Flowers
(Williams),
183
.
See also
mundanity, descriptions of

fantastic, definition of,
4
–
5
,
234n20

fantasy, definitions of,
4
–
7
,
126
–
27
.
See also
high fantasy, low fantasy

Farthest Shore, The
(Le Guin),
180
–
81

Feist, Raymond E.:
A Darkness at Sethanon
,
70
;
The King's Buccaneer
,
28
;
Magician
,
17
,
38

Fforde, Jasper,
Something Rotten
,
70

Fisher King figure,
13
,
178
,
183
–
91
,
219
,
258n30
,
258nn34
–
35
,
258n37
,
258
–
59n39

Fletcher, Charlie,
Stoneheart
,
23

Flieger, Verlyn,
106
–
7
,
138
,
140

folktales,
6
,
71
,
85
,
90
,
179
,
246n25

Ford, Jeffrey, “The Annals of Eelin-Ok,”
247n25

Frazer, James,
95
,
185
–
86

fuzzy set, fantasy as,
4
,
6
–
9
,
219
,
221
,
236n28
,
250n98

Gaiman, Neil,
23
,
71
,
222
,
236n33
,
247n38
;
Stardust
,
12
,
72
,
82
–
93
,
95
,
98
,
247n36

Gardner, Martin,
Visitors from Oz
,
27
,
241n57

Garner, Alan:
Elidor
,
178
;
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
,
23

Garth, John,
200

Gate of Ivory
(also
Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn
; Holdstock).
See
Holdstock, Robert

Genette, Gérard,
20
–
21
.
See also
paratexts

Gentle, Mary,
Grunts
,
259n50

Glotfelty, Cheryll,
3

Goldstein, Lisa,
13
,
178
,
190
–
94
,
214
,
236n33

Goodkind, Terry,
259n48

Gordon, Joan,
155
,
160

Granström, Erik,
Svavelvinter
,
236n34

Groos, Arthur,
258n34

hachures,
40
,
42
,
242n70
.
See also
hill signs

Hambly, Barbara,
The Magicians of Night
,
195
–
97

Hammond, Wayne G.,
108

happy endings,
64
,
179
,
182
.
See also
eucatastrophe

Hardy, Lyndon,
Master of the Sixth Magic
,
251n104

Harley, J. B.,
51
–
52

Harvey, P. D. A.,
25
,
50

healing,
103
,
138
; and rulers,
139
–
40
,
179
–
80
,
182
,
187
,
190
,
256
–
57n11

Hedrick, Charles W., Jr.,
191

hells,
72
,
91
,
196
–
97
; in Dante,
14
,
18
,
20
,
74
,
196
–
97
,
212
; in Milton,
196
–
97
,
209
,
212

Helms, Randel,
199
,
201

“Here be dragons” (expression),
39
,
85
–
86

Hickman, Tracy, Dragonlance Chronicles,
236n34

high fantasy,
2
,
42
,
250n98
; definition of,
10
; maps in:
14
–
15
,
22
–
23
,
65
,
223
; as pseudomedieval,
41
,
66
.
See also
portal-quest fantasy; immersive fantasy; secondary worlds

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