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By: Black Gate » Blog Archive » Being in the Nature of an Anniversary: Ruminations on Fantasy

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:50:06 +0000

[...] think I first started to get a hint of what I was looking for when I was putting together the series of posts about Sara Coleridge, the first writer of heroic fantasy. In those posts, I tried to [...]

By: Black Gate » Blog Archive » Breathing Life Into Dead Gods: The Allegory of Love by C.S. Lewis

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:35:32 +0000

[...] Tracing the roots of fantasy is a fascinating exercise. From whence did works of pure fancy spring? How far back do we go to find their source? Are its origins to be found in works like The Epic of Gilgamesh, or The Iliad and The Odyssey (for a great series of posts on the subject, look no further than Matthew David Surridge’s four part series Worlds Within Worlds ). [...]

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The Half-Made Links (2) « Torque Control — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:01:59 +0000

[...] Black Gate, Matthew David Surridge is on a quest to find The First Heroic Fantasy: part one, part two, part [...]

By: Black Gate » Blog Archive » Worlds Within Worlds: The First Heroic Fantasy (Part IV)

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:05:42 +0000

[...] investigating the question of who wrote the first otherworld fantasy (you can find the first part here, the second here, and the third here). By ‘otherworld fantasy’ I mean a story set entirely in [...]

By: Black Gate » Blog Archive » Worlds Within Worlds: The First Heroic Fantasy (Part III)

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:35:02 +0000

[...] the first post, I considered how to identify a fictional otherworld. I suggested four characteristics, of which a [...]

By: Black Gate » Blog Archive » Worlds Within Worlds: The First Heroic Fantasy (Part II)

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:31:59 +0000

[...] like a simple question: who wrote the first fantasy set entirely in another world? As I found in my first post, to answer that question you first have to decide how to define a fantasy otherworld. I came up with [...]

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SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 8/31/10 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:36:47 +0000

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By: Matthew David Surridge

Matthew David Surridge — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:25:51 +0000

Thank you very much!

I have to admit I’ve not read Absalom, Absalom myself; it’s one of the books I’ve been meaning to get around to, not least because it turns up in some interesting places: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3333

At any rate, you can see the map (sort of; it’s pretty small) here:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryy.html#Yoknapatawpha_map

By: John ONeill

John ONeill — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:10:57 +0000

This is a marvelous article, Matthew.

It evens makes me want to read Absalom, Absalom, and that’s no small feat.

- John