:外研版选修6英语Module 2 Fantasy Literature同步课件4份

Fantasy ①Fantasy could be said to be the progenitor(祖先) from which the other forms of literature came. Fantasy’s habit of taking real?life situations and characters and introducing them into a world where unexpected and unexplainable things happen has attracted readers since the earliest days. The very first recorded literary works in history were fantasy: Homer’s Odyssey, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night and countless others. Modern literature forms are based on them. Fantasy is particularly the only form of literature that has no clear boundaries between adult fiction and children’s fiction. Lewis Carroll’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, for instance were published over 100 years ago. The books were in fact written for a child—the original Alice, who was the daughter of a friend of Carroll’s. However, they are just as often read by adults looking for an escape back to a simple time. A more modern example is J．K.Rowling’s Har