Description: "This excellent and innovative work draws on theoretical ideas from inside and outside of fantasy scholarship, and combines an impressively broad survey of texts with thoughtful reading of key examples. Ekman convincingly shows how much of fantasy's significance comes from its representation of settings."--Brian Attebery "What do maps and mapping have to tell us about the construction of fantasy worlds? What is the role of landscape in the creation of the myth-scape of fantasy? Here Be Dragons considers the role of boundaries and 'polders' in constructing the dynamics of fantasy and asks how the mythological relations of humans to their world are shaped.""--Farah Mendlesohn, author of Rhetorics of Fantasy

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