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<blockquote data-quote="Bilharzia" data-source="post: 8355385" data-attributes="member: 6970322">Phllip Emery writes about the motifs of sword &amp; sorcery, instead of plot elements. This is a better and more useful way of thinking about the genre.<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery is intense. All else is subjugated to this effect</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery is potentially amoral</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery is the combination of violence and the numinous: a double-helix of violences which entwine around intensity</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery eschews explicit development of milieu or character or concept</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery is generally naturally a short story form</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery contains an element of deathwish in its sensibility</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery has a Chthonic sensibility</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery has a potential element of tragedy in its sensibility</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery combines explicit and implicit horror</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Sword-&amp;-sorcery protagonist is a loner – a figure apart or other</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery addresses the irrational through the very fact of its connection with the numinous effect</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery is about power</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sword-&amp;-sorcery is highly ‘visual’ (either through the presence or the absence of the visual).</li>
</ol>This list is taken from an interview with Emery on Black Gate magazine:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.blackgate.com/2021/06/10/the-aesthetics-of-sword-sorcery-an-interview-with-philip-emery/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bilharzia, post: 8355385, member: 6970322"] Phllip Emery writes about the[I] motifs [/I]of sword & sorcery, instead of plot elements. This is a better and more useful way of thinking about the genre. [LIST=1] [*]Sword-&-sorcery is intense. All else is subjugated to this effect [*]Sword-&-sorcery is potentially amoral [*]Sword-&-sorcery is the combination of violence and the numinous: a double-helix of violences which entwine around intensity [*]Sword-&-sorcery eschews explicit development of milieu or character or concept [*]Sword-&-sorcery is generally naturally a short story form [*]Sword-&-sorcery contains an element of deathwish in its sensibility [*]Sword-&-sorcery has a Chthonic sensibility [*]Sword-&-sorcery has a potential element of tragedy in its sensibility [*]Sword-&-sorcery combines explicit and implicit horror [*]The Sword-&-sorcery protagonist is a loner – a figure apart or other [*]Sword-&-sorcery addresses the irrational through the very fact of its connection with the numinous effect [*]Sword-&-sorcery is about power [*]Sword-&-sorcery is highly ‘visual’ (either through the presence or the absence of the visual). [/LIST] This list is taken from an interview with Emery on Black Gate magazine: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.blackgate.com/2021/06/10/the-aesthetics-of-sword-sorcery-an-interview-with-philip-emery/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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