Olsztyn, Poland

Academic Fantasy Enthusiasts Club "OLIFANT" (ACK)

Akademicki Klub Miłośników Fantastyki „OLIFANT” (ACK)

Subject area: humanities
University website: www.uwm.edu.pl/en/
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became literature and drama. From the twentieth century it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels and video games.
Fantasy
"There, Master Niketas," Baudolino said, "when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. ... There is nothing better than imagining other worlds," he said, "to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."
Umberto Eco, Baudolino (2000), p. 99.
Fantasy
Harmless erotic fantasies are terrific, it’s the lousy ones you have to look out for—the harmful, destructive, morbid erotic fixations—real sadism, killing, blood-letting, torturing where the pleasure is in the victim’s actual pain, etc. Those are 100 per cent bad and I won’t have any part of them.
William Moulton Marston The Secret History of Wonder Woman, (2014) by Jill Lepore
Fantasy
It [fantasy literature] is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature that children could read gives them less of a false impression. I think what profess to be realistic stories for children are far more likely to deceive them.
C. S. Lewis, "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952)

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