Slavic fantasy, Russian Slavyanskoye fentezi, Polish fantasy slowianska, is a subgenre of contemporary fantasy literature, film, video games and visual art that developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is distinguished by its incorporation of Slavic folklore, legends, bylinas and myths into the general conventions of fantasy fiction, though its genre boundaries remain indistinct; within Russia it forms a kind of fairy tale mythological adventure prose in modern mass literature and is sometimes called Russian fantasy, though that broader phrase is more often used for any fantasy written in Russian regardless of subject, and the subgenre also exists outside Russia, most notably in the Polish fantasy series The Witcher.
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Notable Example Defining TraitIncorporation of Slavic folklore, legends, bylinas and myths into the general canons of fantasy literature 1 Defining Trait Partially Attested
Place of OriginThe article centres on Russia and states the genre also exists outside Russia, for example the Polish fantasy series The Witcher. In the Other Atlases
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1. Slavic fantasy - Wikipedia
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A kind of fantasy genre in modern Russian mass literature
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A major example of that genre outside Russia is the Polish fantasy series
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Slavic fantasy is distinguished by the incorporation of
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Slavic fantasy (Russian: Славянское фэнтези, Polish: fantasy słowiańska) is a sub-genre of contemporary art (fantasy literature, cinema, video games, visual arts) that developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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