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 Star Trek universe Thomas More’s classic Utopia and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Arda to elaborate user-created game worlds like Minecraft contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship world structure/design and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds 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.|The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds | Media & Cultural Studies
