The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds

Book Overview

This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas More's classic Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkien's Arda, to elaborate, user-created game worlds like Minecraft, contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship, world structure/design, and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138638919
• ISBN13: 9781138638914
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.7"