{"content":[{"text":"Letendre","bbox":{"left":0.783333,"top":0.042833,"width":0.06948999999999994,"height":0.020212}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.872353,"top":0.047727,"width":0.009938000000000002,"height":0.015152000000000006}},{"text":"Sequestered Spaces, and What is Within and Without \n in Regards to Naomi Novik’s Temeraire Series","bbox":{"left":0.290392,"top":0.089045,"width":0.419176,"height":0.03763699999999999}},{"text":"In episode fifteen of the Be the Serpent podcast, entitled “My (Psychic, Firebreathing)","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.141318,"width":0.67496,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"Little Pony,” hosts Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske, and Jennifer Mace celebrate their","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.176167,"width":0.6979,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"childhood relationship to “horse books” – books “about a human forming a relationship with an","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.211015,"width":0.750392,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"animal” (after 8:22). However, their main focus is not horses or other realistic animals, but","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.245863,"width":0.7117249999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"instead dragons. The wish fulfillment that the fantasy of dragons as life-long companions","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.280712,"width":0.6995880000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"represents is one that frequently repeats itself in modern fantasy literature. This is something that","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.31556,"width":0.7607459999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"more traditional scholarly studies have also noticed. In Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James’ A","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.350409,"width":0.755509,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"Short History of Fantasy, they remark how “More than one critic has commented [that Anne","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.385257,"width":0.7257659999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern books] are essentially the girl fantasy of owning a pony of","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.420106,"width":0.7373130000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"her very, very own and being able to talk to it” (95). Mendlesohn and James do not expand upon","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.454954,"width":0.7568630000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"this statement, and it is easy to be dismissive of it. There definitely is room to expand on this","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.489803,"width":0.7276279999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"statement – it reads rather critical of the concept as a whole, as if it is too childish for adult","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.524651,"width":0.711333,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"fantasy (or science fiction in the specific case of the Dragonriders of Pern). It seems to dismiss","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.5595,"width":0.7478229999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"McCaffrey‘s work, even though it is a great influence on the fantasy genre, but this paper is not a","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.594348,"width":0.7624310000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"defense of the Dragonriders of Pern. What is important in this statement is the idea of this “pony","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.629197,"width":0.7621560000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"of her very, very own” in relationship to dragon-based fantasy. It is a trend recognized by both","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.664045,"width":0.741568,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"popular and academic sources alike. As the hosts of Be the Serpent discuss Pern, they connect","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.698894,"width":0.738588,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"this “fantasy horse book” series to a more recently published series that shares this same trait,","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.733742,"width":0.733922,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"that of Naomi Novik’s Temeraire novels. Novik’s series certainly follows in the legacy","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.768591,"width":0.6841170000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"popularized by McCaffrey‘s series, where companionship between dragons and riders drives the","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.803439,"width":0.755765,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"narrative forward. These relationships not only affect personal relationships between characters,","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.838288,"width":0.7535289999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"but the very structures of societies these characters live within. In Temeraire, dragons and their","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.873136,"width":0.745941,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}