:''This article is about a fantasy sub-genre. For information on the game company, see Sword & Sorcery.'' Sword and sorcery (S&S) is a fantasy fiction sub-genre featuring swashbuckling heroes in violent conflict with a variety of villains, chiefly wizards, witches, evil spirits, and other supernatural creatures. The term was suggested by Fritz Leiber to Michael Moorcock in 1961. But the subgenre has much older roots. Ultimately—like much fantasy—it has its roots in mythology and Classical epics such as Homer's Odyssey, but its immediate progenitors are the swashbuckling tales of Alexandre Dumas (''The Three Musketeers'' (1844), etc.) and Rafael Sabatini (e.g., ''Scaramouche'' (1921), itself rooted in the Italian commedia dell'arte) - although these all lack the supernatural element - and early fantasy fiction such as E. R. Eddison's ''The Worm Ouroboros'' (1922) and Lord Dunsany's ''The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth'' (1910). But S&S proper really began in the pulp magazines fantasy magazines. ==Seminal S&S== Seminal S&S books and series include *Robert E. Howard's tales of Conan the Barbarian, mostly in ''Weird Tales magazine'' from 1932. *Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales, beginning with "The Empire of the Necromancers" (1932). *C. L. Moore's "The Black God's Kiss" (1934), which introduced the first notable S&S heroine, Jirel of Joiry; the story was later collected with others in ''Jirel of Joiry'' (1969). *Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser sequence, beginning with "Two Sought Adventure" (1939). *Michael Moorcock's Elric sequence, beginning with ''Stormbringer'' (serialised in ''Science Fantasy (magazine)'' 1963-64). Other pulp fantasy fiction - such as Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars stories - has a similar feel to S&S, but, because alien science replaces the supernatural, is usually described as science fantasy. ==S&S Heroines== Despite the early work of C. L. Moore and others, S&S has had a strongly masculine bias. Female characters were generally distressed damsels to be rescued or protected. Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''Sword and Sorceress'' anthology series (1984 onwards) attempted to redress the balance. Bradley encouraged female writers and protagonists: the stories feature skillful swordswomen and powerful sorceresses. The series was immensely popular and Bradley was editing the final volume at the time of her death. Today, active female characters who participate equally with the male heroes in the stories are a regular feature in modern S&S stories, though they are also relied upon for sex appeal. Introduced as a minor character in one of Howard's Conan stories, Red Sonja of Rogatine was a popular female S&S character in a comic books series Roy Thomas, a series of novels by David C. Smith and Richard Tierney, and an unsuccessful film, ''Red Sonja'' (1985), directed by Richard Fleischer. Fantasy genres
I object to "muscular heroes in violent conflict with a variety of villains" -- especially n the "Chicks in Chain Mail" series, and other female and feminist authors, there are many, many, many female protaganists in the genre, and many of them avoid violent conflict altogether. -- Zoe Why objectionable? The text to which you seem to object ("muscular heroes in violent conflict with a variety of villains") says nothing about the gender of the hero. I think that it refers to muscular heroes of both genders. I suppose you could instead say "muscular heroes and heroines in violent conflict" but why use the sexist "heroine"? Even "muscular heroines and heroes in violent conflict" is less satisfactory to me than the original. By the way, I think the issue of gender in S&S is handled quite well at the end of the article. What do you think? Zoe, I suggest you propose an alternative that would improve the entry -- or just change the entry. Thanks! -- User:Cayzle Seconded. If you think that there is important information being left out of this article, then go ahead and add it! People can only write what they know, and the only real femininist S&S I was aware of is MZBs... I'm sure that there's more out there in this day and age, but I haven't come across it. ~ user:Karen Johnson user:Ant: It's implicit in my source for this that the phrasing of this definition is due to Moorcock in 1961. But not explicit... Certainly, in the 1960s, the perception was that it was very much a "masculine" subgenre, written by men, about men, for men... well, adolescent boys mostly? ---- Red Sonja never appeared in a Howard Conan story, and the character is almost wholly a creation of Roy Thomas. I'm correcting the article as-such, but I wanted to let people know why I was doing it. User:172.148.61.63 16:08, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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:''This article is about a fantasy sub-genre. For information on the game company, see Sword & Sorcery.'' Sword and sorcery (S&S) is a fantasy fiction sub-genre featuring swashbuckling heroes in violent conflict with a variety of villains, chiefly wizards, witches, evil spirits, and other supernatural creatures. The term was suggested by Fritz Leiber to Michael Moorcock in 1961. But the subgenre has much older roots. Ultimately—like much fantasy—it has its roots in mythology and Classical epics such as Homer's Odyssey, but its immediate progenitors are the swashbuckling tales of Alexandre Dumas (''The Three Musketeers'' (1844), etc.) and Rafael Sabatini (e.g., ''Scaramouche'' (1921), itself rooted in the Italian commedia dell'arte) - although these all lack the supernatural element - and early fantasy fiction such as E. R. Eddison's ''The Worm Ouroboros'' (1922) and Lord Dunsany's ''The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth'' (1910). But S&S proper really began in the pulp magazines fantasy magazines. ==Seminal S&S== Seminal S&S books and series include *Robert E. Howard's tales of Conan the Barbarian, mostly in ''Weird Tales magazine'' from 1932. *Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales, beginning with "The Empire of the Necromancers" (1932). *C. L. Moore's "The Black God's Kiss" (1934), which introduced the first notable S&S heroine, Jirel of Joiry; the story was later collected with others in ''Jirel of Joiry'' (1969). *Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser sequence, beginning with "Two Sought Adventure" (1939). *Michael Moorcock's Elric sequence, beginning with ''Stormbringer'' (serialised in ''Science Fantasy (magazine)'' 1963-64). Other pulp fantasy fiction - such as Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars stories - has a similar feel to S&S, but, because alien science replaces the supernatural, is usually described as science fantasy. ==S&S Heroines== Despite the early work of C. L. Moore and others, S&S has had a strongly masculine bias. Female characters were generally distressed damsels to be rescued or protected. Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''Sword and Sorceress'' anthology series (1984 onwards) attempted to redress the balance. Bradley encouraged female writers and protagonists: the stories feature skillful swordswomen and powerful sorceresses. The series was immensely popular and Bradley was editing the final volume at the time of her death. Today, active female characters who participate equally with the male heroes in the stories are a regular feature in modern S&S stories, though they are also relied upon for sex appeal. Introduced as a minor character in one of Howard's Conan stories, Red Sonja of Rogatine was a popular female S&S character in a comic books series Roy Thomas, a series of novels by David C. Smith and Richard Tierney, and an unsuccessful film, ''Red Sonja'' (1985), directed by Richard Fleischer. Fantasy genres
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I object to "muscular heroes in violent conflict with a variety of villains" -- especially n the "Chicks in Chain Mail" series, and other female and feminist authors, there are many, many, many female protaganists in the genre, and many of them avoid violent conflict altogether. -- Zoe Why objectionable? The text to which you seem to object ("muscular heroes in violent conflict with a variety of villains") says nothing about the gender of the hero. I think that it refers to muscular heroes of both genders. I suppose you could instead say "muscular heroes and heroines in violent conflict" but why use the sexist "heroine"? Even "muscular heroines and heroes in violent conflict" is less satisfactory to me than the original. By the way, I think the issue of gender in S&S is handled quite well at the end of the article. What do you think? Zoe, I suggest you propose an alternative that would improve the entry -- or just change the entry. Thanks! -- User:Cayzle Seconded. If you think that there is important information being left out of this article, then go ahead and add it! People can only write what they know, and the only real femininist S&S I was aware of is MZBs... I'm sure that there's more out there in this day and age, but I haven't come across it. ~ user:Karen Johnson user:Ant: It's implicit in my source for this that the phrasing of this definition is due to Moorcock in 1961. But not explicit... Certainly, in the 1960s, the perception was that it was very much a "masculine" subgenre, written by men, about men, for men... well, adolescent boys mostly? ---- Red Sonja never appeared in a Howard Conan story, and the character is almost wholly a creation of Roy Thomas. I'm correcting the article as-such, but I wanted to let people know why I was doing it. User:172.148.61.63 16:08, 11 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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