Sources Of Fantasy
Though the fantasy genre in its modern sense is less than two centuries old, its sources have a long and distinguished history. Elements of the supernatural and the fantastic were an element of literature from its beginning.
In The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute and John Grant separated the concept of fantasy as such from that of "taproot texts", works that are sources for fantasy, but not themselves fantasy.
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