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More subgenres
[edit]There are lots more subgenres listed at Literary genre. We should expand this article to cover them.
-- TimNelson (talk) 11:05, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Sword-and-sandal
[edit]Quoting the lead paragraph,
It is used as an umbrella term for the sword and sorcery genre and sometimes, if fantasy is involved, the sword-and-sandal genre too.
But sword-and-sandal here at en.wikipedia is a genre that "dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965", with a mid-1980s revival. --P64 (talk) 19:58, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
- P.S. Sword-and-sandal is currently claimed only by the two wikiprojects Film (Italian cinema task force) and Classical Greece and Rome. --P64 (talk) 20:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
The random list of "examples"
[edit]- Assaph Mehr's Murder In Absentia: Rome-based fantasy world
- C. J. Cherryh's The Russian Stories: Medieval Kievan Rus' and The Paladin: China of the Tang Dynasty
- C.C. Finlay's Traitor to the Crown: American Revolution
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain vampire novels: various eras
- David Gemmel's Lion of Macedon: Ancient Greece
- Delia Sherman's The Porcelain Dove: Revolutionary France
- Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete: Ancient Greece, and Soldier of Sidon: Ancient Egypt
- Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana: Renaissance Italy, A Song for Arbonne: Medieval Occitania, The Lions of Al-Rassan: Moorish Spain, The Sarantine Mosaic: Byzantine Greece, and The Last Light of the Sun: Viking England
- Harry Turtledove's Thessalonica: (Byzantine Greece) and War Between the Provinces: (American Civil War)
- Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke: about a warrior prince in 14th-century Japan, who travels to the West in order to remove a demon curse from him by a Forest Spirit.
- Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically Phantom Blood: Victorian England, Battle Tendency: World War II, and Steel Ball Run: Wild West America.
- Hiroshi Aramata's Teito Monogatari (Tale of the Imperial Capital Saga): different novels in different time periods of Japan spanning from Bakumatsu to Showa Era
- James Gawley is a classical scholar who writes classical fantasy based on the civil wars of the late Roman Republic.
- Juliet Marillier's The Sevenwaters Trilogy: 9th-century Ireland
- Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels: Medieval British Isles (specifically, Wales)
- Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori: feudal Japan
- Lynne Ellison's The Green Bronze Mirror: a teenage girl goes back in time to the Roman Empire and meets a Roman witch and a magic-wielding druid.
- Naomi Novik's Temeraire series: England during the Napoleonic Wars
- Paula Volsky's Illusion: French Revolution
- Peter Morwood's Prince Ivan trilogy: Russia just before and after the coming of the Golden Horde
- Philip Tolhurst's George and the Dragon mixes Arthurian legend, dragons and World War II.
- Poul Anderson has written many novels mixing northern mythology with the historic events of the Viking age: The Broken Sword, Hrolf Kraki's Saga, War of the Gods, and Mother of Kings. More historical with only slight fantasy elements is The Last Viking series.
- Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age includes fantasy versions of many historical countries and peoples.
- Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha is mostly set in Sengoku Era Japan.
- S. J. A. Turney's Interregnum and Ironroot: Late Imperial Rome
- Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories: Napoleonic England
- Tim Powers's The Drawing of the Dark: Renaissance Europe, On Stranger Tides: early 19th century Caribbean, and The Stress of Her Regard: early 19th century Italy
Also the latter list of works featuring Japan might me think a section about Japan might be in order, however it is called, as it's very common in Japanese pop culture (ninja/samurai vs demons and such). SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 17:07, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Eurocentric
[edit]The top definition is Eurocentric and could use improvement with verified sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KimYunmi (talk • contribs) 18:08, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
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