Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds

<p>This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media including literature television film and games. From the <i>Star Trek </i>universe Thomas More’s classic <i>Utopia</i> and J. R. R. Tolkien’s <i>Arda</i> to elaborate user-created game worlds like <i>Minecraft</i> contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship world structure/design and narrative. <i>The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds </i>offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.</p>