HeyJaredDr. Frank Weinreich
Freelance editor and author, Independent Scholar, Nerd, Taiji-practitioner
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Metaphor & Co. (opens the original)
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Hello, I wish you a great day full of fantastic experiences. As I pointed out shortly after launching this series of Substacks, the Fantastic tells stories that include the impossible yet tell us nothing other than the truth about our real human lives. The most outspoken witness for that assumption is Ursula Le Guin, perhaps the most important author of fantastic literature, who said: “Fantasy literature is about human life; about how it is lived, how it could be lived, how it ought to be lived”
Metapher & Co. (opens the original)
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Hallo, ich wünsche Ihnen einen phantastischen Tag.Phantastische Geschichten beinhalten Unmögliches und erzählen doch nichts anderes als Wahrheiten über unser reales menschliches Leben. Das führte ich unter anderem mit Ursula Le Guins Worten schon kurz nach der Eröffnung dieses Substacks aus: “Phantastische Literatur dreht sich um das menschliche Leben; darum, wie es gelebt wird, wie es gelebt werden könnte, wie es gelebt werden sollte“, so die vielleicht wichtigste Autorin der Phantastik. (Natio
Fairy Tales (opens the original)
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I wish you a great day full of fantastic experiences. Today I want to reflect on the third precursor to modern fantastic literature and art with which this short series concludes: the fairy tale.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="603" src="https://substackcdn
Märchen (opens the original)
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Hallo ich wünsche Ihnen einen phantastischen Tag anlässlich dieser Betrachtungen über den dritten Vorläufer der modernen Phantastik, mit dem diese kleine Reihe abschließt: das Märchen.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="603" src="
Saga and Legend – Antiquity's Edutainment (opens the original)
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Hello, I wish you a great day full of fantastic experiences. A day on which I would like to talk about Sagas1 as the second predecessor of modern fantastic literature and art.Saga, Myth, Legend – aren’t they all the same thing? Well, not quite, even though they are closely related. While the Mythos explains the world, the Saga adds an action-packed human element to the divine referred to in the Mythos, connecting us mere mortals to the grand scheme
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