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The modern genre of fantasy draws on ancient and Medieval tales of magic and other worlds, but is also a very different creature, based in the assumed non-reality of the fantastic things it depicts, and formed in the crucible of 20th century golden age science fiction, and the pulp magazines which birthed the fiction categories which shape reading, writing, publishing, and bookstore shelves today. With readings including Hope Mirrlees, Ursula K. Le Guin, Poul Anderson, Ted Chiang, Sofia Samatar, and Peter S. Beagle, we begin with turn of the century fairy stories and culminate with a (re)read of the urtext which made fantasy coalesce as a genre, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which we will re-examine in the light of its ancestors and descendants, in Western literature and beyond.

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