“Me” in Other Realms: Reinterpretations of Identity in Fantasy Fiction

This article presents the notion of identity as perceived in Tanith Lee’s awardwinning novel Death’s Master. It focuses on the four main relations between identity and other concepts found in the novel, often resulting in identity conflict. It also addresses the traditional and non-traditional perc...

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Autor principal:	Barbora Vinczeová
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Lenguaje:	EN PL
Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2017
Materias:	identity Tanith Lee Death’s Master fantasy fairy tales Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3c9d5e5f476d4bb29f0c4a4044f546fc2021-11-27T12:55:40Z“Me” in Other Realms: Reinterpretations of Identity in Fantasy Fiction10.12797/RM.01.2017.02.062544-21392544-2546https://doaj.org/article/3c9d5e5f476d4bb29f0c4a4044f546fc2017-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/relacje/article/view/522https://doaj.org/toc/2544-2139https://doaj.org/toc/2544-2546 This article presents the notion of identity as perceived in Tanith Lee’s awardwinning novel Death’s Master. It focuses on the four main relations between identity and other concepts found in the novel, often resulting in identity conflict. It also addresses the traditional and non-traditional perceptions of the given phenomena, e.g. rejection of motherhood, gender fluidity, collective identity and the identity of abstract notions personified, such as death. Our goal is to examine the different concepts of “self” as related to social standing, sexuality, gender or nature. The overall aim of the article is to present how the author reworks the concepts of traditional identity in relation to stereotypical representations of the characters. Barbora VinczeováKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleidentityTanith LeeDeath’s Masterfantasyfairy talesEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674ENPLRelacje Międzykulturowe, Vol 1, Iss 2(2) (2017)
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description	This article presents the notion of identity as perceived in Tanith Lee’s awardwinning novel Death’s Master. It focuses on the four main relations between identity and other concepts found in the novel, often resulting in identity conflict. It also addresses the traditional and non-traditional perceptions of the given phenomena, e.g. rejection of motherhood, gender fluidity, collective identity and the identity of abstract notions personified, such as death. Our goal is to examine the different concepts of “self” as related to social standing, sexuality, gender or nature. The overall aim of the article is to present how the author reworks the concepts of traditional identity in relation to stereotypical representations of the characters.
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“Me” in Other Realms: Reinterpretations of Identity in Fantasy Fiction

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