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Building Imaginary Worlds The Theory and History of Subcreation

Paperback • 2012 • English

Building Imaginary Worlds The Theory and History of Subcreation

By Mark J. P. Wolf

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Mark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worlds-which are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transautho...Show more

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English

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Building Imaginary Worlds The Theory and History of Subcreation

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