Fantasy Literature

By Oxford University

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Fantasy Literature has emerged as one of the most important genres over the past few decades and now enjoys extraordinary levels of popularity. The impact of Tolkien’s Middle-earth works and the serialisation of George Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’ books has moved these and their contemporaries into mainstream culture. As the popularity grows so does interest in the roots of fantasy, the main writers and themes, and how to approach these texts. Oxford is a natural home to fantasy literature with those who worked or studied here having written so many famous and influential texts (e.g. Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson), C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones, Alan Garner, and Philip Pullman to name but a few) – leading to the notion of an ‘Oxford School of Fantasy’. These lectures, short talks, and interviews seek to take listeners into these works and these writers and beyond. All material released under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ . [Artwork by Minjie Su.]

Episode Date
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist
Dec 11, 2023
Tolkien and Beowulf
Dec 11, 2023
A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
Dec 11, 2023
How to write 'The Lord of the Rings'
Dec 08, 2023
Is Jin Yong 'China's Tolkien'?
Sep 06, 2021
Arthur Rackham at Trinity College
Jul 30, 2021
The Last of the Titans
Jul 27, 2021
The Saga of Eric the Unlucky
Jul 20, 2021
Edward Lear and Fantasy
Jul 18, 2021
Werewolves in Medieval Literature vs Modern TV
Jul 06, 2021
Morte D'Arthur Murals in the Oxford Union
Jun 28, 2021
Violet Needham
Jun 22, 2021
What is the 'Silmarillion'?
Apr 19, 2021
Verse and Prose in Fantasy Literature
Nov 24, 2020
Guy Gavriel Kay
Nov 24, 2020
Sylvia Townsend Warner
May 26, 2020
Ursula K. Le Guin
May 13, 2020
T. H. White
May 12, 2020
Diana Wynne Jones
May 12, 2020
Why 'Game of Thrones' Matters
May 12, 2020
Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century
May 12, 2020
Approaching Fantasy Literature
May 12, 2020
H. P. Lovecraft
May 12, 2020