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单词 heroic fantasy
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heroic fantasy
heroic fantasy n. (a) a daydream or fantasy centring on imagined heroic acts or accomplishments; cf. hero fantasy n. at hero n. Compounds 2b; (b) a work of fiction which deals with the adventures of a heroic figure; (now) spec. a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy literature featuring the adventures of a hero in a (more or less) imaginary world.
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1779 W. Combe Lett. Yorick & Eliza II. 55 The men seem to have raised themselves from their heroic fantasies.
1869 Appleton's Jrnl. 23 Oct. 315/1 He [sc. Byron] had to set out on his journey sick, worn out, and especially out of sorts at that heroic fantasy which has not a little contributed to render his name immortal.
1907 Cambr. Mod. Hist. X. xxxii. 724 Passing into England, through the novels of the Earl of Orrery, the heroic fantasy gradually reduced itself to modern form in the Sir Charles Grandison of Richardson.
1921 Lit. Digest 27 Aug. 14/2 This mood of exaltation..may have its dangers if it carries away the statesmen and strategists who have to deal with stern facts rather than with heroic fantasies.
1963 L. S. de Camp Heroic Fantasy in Swords & Sorcery 7Heroic fantasy’ is the name of a class of stories laid, not in the world as it is or was or will be, but as it ought to have been to make a good story.
1997 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 6 Nov. He could be Walter Mitty, lost in his heroic fantasies while she natters on and on.
2010 R. Duncan in M. K. Booker Encycl. Comic Bks. & Graphic Novels I. 205 The 1930s pulp magazine stories of Robert E. Howard are the wellspring of heroic fantasy in comic books.
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