The Danger of The Single Story
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On a similar topic - one of this year's BSFA nominations - I Didn't Dream Of Dragons. Both are worth reading for the effect that growing up reading the literature of another culture can have on a person.
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Date: 2010-04-03 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-04 10:04 am (UTC)And as far as fantasy is concerned, doesn't structural analysis suggest that most stories are basically the same anyway if you take out the specifics, so that dragon becomes monster?
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Date: 2010-04-04 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-04 11:33 am (UTC)My point was that, if you remove these specifics then at the level of structure fantasy writing from different places and times is perhaps more alike than the author of the article seemed to acknowledge.