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Childrens Literature
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10/26/2008

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Modern fantasy
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refers to the body of literature in which the events, the settings, or the characters are outside the realm of possibility. Cannot happen in the real world
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fantasies often
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contain truths that help the reader understand todays truth.
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provide a unique setting
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The authors of modern fantasy must
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Authors of modern fantasy have the challenge of persuading readers to open up to beleiving
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contrary to reality, strange, whimsical, or magical, yet has an internal logic and consistancy
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18th century
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Imaginative literature did not appear until the
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Hans Christian Anderson
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A Dane who published many modern fairytales
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Charlottes Web by EB White
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is the best-known and best-loved US work of fantasy
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Science Fiction
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the most recent development in modern fantasy
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Fractured Fairytales
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traditional tales with a contemporary twist with a contemporary twist or tale told from a new perspective, took on new popularity with Jon Scieszka's "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"
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Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling, first novel was in 1998
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Modern fantasy is likely to continue to be a popular genre with children's authors as evidenced by
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Modern folktales or literary folktales
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are tales told in a form similar to that of a traditional tale with the accompanying typical elements
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Modern tales
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have and identifiable author who has written a tale in this is form
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Tales of Hans Christian Anderson
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the earliest and best known of these modern tales
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Modern folktales
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are important counterbalance to traditional tales
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have female characters that change their own destinies
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Many modern tales
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Animal fantasies
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are stories in which animals behave as human beings in that they experience emotions, talk, and have the ability to reason.
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historical fantasy or time-warp fantasy
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is a story in which a present-day protagonist goes back in time to a different era
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Quest Stories
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are adventure stories with a search motif
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High fantasy
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quest stories in a serious tone
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struggle between good and evil
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conflict in modern fantasy
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the quest
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usually represents the journey of self-discovery and personal growth for the protagonist, in addition to the search for the reward.
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science fiction
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is a form of imaginative literature that provides a picture of something that cold happen based on scientific facts and principles
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presented in science fiction appear plausible and possible to the reader because settings and events are built on extensions of known technologies and scientific concepts
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hypotheses about the future of humankind and the universe
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futuristic fiction
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science fiction stories may portray the world, or one very much like it, that young people will one day inhabit; for this reason, science fiction
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science fantasy
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is a popularized type of science fiction in which a scientific explanations, though not plausible, is offered for imaginative leaps into the unknown.
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