Mythopoetic and Social Problematics of Fantasy in the Works of Lucius Shepard

Adilova , Shakhnoza Rakhimovna

Lingvospektr · 2026-yil

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The article examines the mythopoetic and social problematics of fantasy in the works of Lucius Shepard. Its aim is to demonstrate how the fantastic in Shepard’s prose exceeds an escapist function and becomes a mode of thinking about power, memory, colonial violence, and peripheral experience. The material includes the novel Life During Wartime, selected texts from The Jaguar Hunter and The Ends of the Earth, and the Griaule cycle collected in The Dragon Griaule. The study combines historical-literary, mythopoetic, narratological, and contextual methods. The analysis shows that the figure of Griaule organizes not only plot but also space, economy, art, and collective imagination. The social dimension emerges through the interaction of fantasy, magical realism, horror, and science fiction, which loads genre form with concrete historical anxiety. The article concludes that Shepard renovates late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century American fantasy through hybrid poetics and an unusually sharp social sensibility.

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MualliflarAdilova , Shakhnoza Rakhimovna
JurnalLingvospektr
NashriyotЎзбекистон давлат жаҳон тиллари университети, “Modern Scientific Research” MChJ
ISSN3060-4958
Nashr sanasi2026-06-23
Jild4
Son1
Betlar119-127
TilIngliz
Ilmiy sohaTarix
Indeksga qo‘shilgan2026-08-26

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Lucius Shepard, American fantasy, mythopoetics, social problematics, magical realism, genre hybridity, Dragon Griaule

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APAAdilova , Shakhnoza Rakhimovna (2026). Mythopoetic and Social Problematics of Fantasy in the Works of Lucius Shepard. Lingvospektr, 4(1), 119-127. https://lingvospektr.uz/index.php/lngsp/article/view/1636
GOST (OAK)Adilova , Shakhnoza Rakhimovna Mythopoetic and Social Problematics of Fantasy in the Works of Lucius Shepard // Lingvospektr. – 2026. – T. 4, № 1. – P. 119-127.
MLAAdilova , Shakhnoza Rakhimovna. “Mythopoetic and Social Problematics of Fantasy in the Works of Lucius Shepard.” Lingvospektr, 4(1), 119-127, 2026. https://lingvospektr.uz/index.php/lngsp/article/view/1636
ChicagoAdilova , Shakhnoza Rakhimovna. “Mythopoetic and Social Problematics of Fantasy in the Works of Lucius Shepard.” Lingvospektr, 4(1), 119-127 (2026). https://lingvospektr.uz/index.php/lngsp/article/view/1636
HarvardAdilova , Shakhnoza Rakhimovna (2026) ‘Mythopoetic and Social Problematics of Fantasy in the Works of Lucius Shepard’, Lingvospektr, 4(1), 119-127. https://lingvospektr.uz/index.php/lngsp/article/view/1636
BibTeX
@article{adilovashakhnozarakhimovna2026,
  title = {Mythopoetic and Social Problematics of Fantasy in the Works of Lucius Shepard},
  author = {Adilova , Shakhnoza Rakhimovna},
  journal = {Lingvospektr},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {4},
  number = {1},
  pages = {119-127},
  url = {https://lingvospektr.uz/index.php/lngsp/article/view/1636}
}

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