There are three differences between fantasy and earlier fantastic works.
The modern fantasy has a different sort of reality, the earlier fantasy world is separated from onys, or very hidden fantasy side of this real world.
Tradition fantasy takes place in our world, often in unknow places some times it describes the time with some presicion, but usually saying simply that it happened long ago and far away.
The modern fantasy usually finds this world in "the lost world tale of the 19th and the 20th centaries.
An other difference is that in the modern fantasy the supernatural things are designed as fictions but in the earlier fantasy the supernatural things can spand the spectrum from legends taking our reallity to myth.
The modern fantasy created by an author or a group of authors, they was based on myths and folklore. Thue differences between modern and traditional fantasy are very notories, because in the 19th century there qere more gothic novels, gost stories, and romantic novels.
By one standard, no work before the fantasy genre was defined can be aconsidered to belong to it, by another, the fantasy genre includes the whole range of fantastic literature, both the modern genre and its traditional antecedents as mny elements wich were treated as true, by earlier authors are wholly ficticios and fantastic for modern readears.
the history of french "fantastique" literature is covered in greater detail under-fantastique.
The modern fantasy has a different sort of reality, the earlier fantasy world is separated from onys, or very hidden fantasy side of this real world.
Tradition fantasy takes place in our world, often in unknow places some times it describes the time with some presicion, but usually saying simply that it happened long ago and far away.
The modern fantasy usually finds this world in "the lost world tale of the 19th and the 20th centaries.
An other difference is that in the modern fantasy the supernatural things are designed as fictions but in the earlier fantasy the supernatural things can spand the spectrum from legends taking our reallity to myth.
The modern fantasy created by an author or a group of authors, they was based on myths and folklore. Thue differences between modern and traditional fantasy are very notories, because in the 19th century there qere more gothic novels, gost stories, and romantic novels.
By one standard, no work before the fantasy genre was defined can be aconsidered to belong to it, by another, the fantasy genre includes the whole range of fantastic literature, both the modern genre and its traditional antecedents as mny elements wich were treated as true, by earlier authors are wholly ficticios and fantastic for modern readears.
the history of french "fantastique" literature is covered in greater detail under-fantastique.
