The Once and Future Genre: The Death of Fantasy & Mythology & It's REBIRTH -How the Greatest Genre in Literature was Defiled & Why It's Resurrection is Inevitable & Crucial
As Arthur in the Myths once lived and will do so again, so too shall our Genre
A Dying Genre
This essay was inspired by a reading of
, two essays on the loss of Myth, the loss of the sacred of the beautiful in literature. Notably in the genre I call Mythic, and others call Fantasy.Many of his statements that he makes in them, have been echoed by the likes of
, , and . Especially this last writer who wrote about the loss of Great R…