{"id":65063,"date":"2017-12-07T00:09:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T08:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=65063"},"modified":"2017-12-07T00:09:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T08:09:27","slug":"paracosm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65063","title":{"rendered":"paracosm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<em>(n.) <\/em>A detailed, prolonged, and imaginary world created by a child that includes humans, animals, or alien creatures. Can have a definite geography, language, and history.<\/p>\n<p>pronunciation |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/other-wordly.tumblr.com\/pronunciation\"><u>\\per-o-\u2018koz-m\\<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65064\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65064\" class=\"wp-image-65064\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/378px-Jessie_Willcox_Smith_-_The_Land_of_Counterpane.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"570\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Examples of paracosm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Middle-earth, the highly detailed fantasy world created by\u00a0J.R.R. Tolkien, as expressed in his novels\u00a0<em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Hobbit<\/em>. Tolkien had been\u00a0inventing languages\u00a0since his teen years, only later imagining the people who spoke them or their environment.<\/li>\n<li>Gondal, Angria, and Gaaldine, the fantasy kingdoms created and written about in childhood by Emily, Anne, and Charlotte\u00a0Bront\u00eb and their brother, Branwell, and maintained well into adulthood. These kingdoms are specifically referred to as paracosms in several academic works.<\/li>\n<li>As children, novelist\u00a0C. S. Lewis\u00a0and his brother,\u00a0Warren,\u00a0together created a paracosm called\u00a0Boxen,\u00a0which was in turn a combination of their respective private paracosms Animal-Land and India. Lewis later drew upon Animal-Land to create the fantasy land of\u00a0Narnia, which he wrote about in\u00a0<em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Hogwarts, invented by J.K. Rowling, author of the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> books.<\/li>\n<li>Terabithia, the imaginary kingdom invented by author Katherine Patterson, in her beloved novel <em>Bridge to Terabithia. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Never Land, from J.M. Barrie\u2019s <em>Peter Pan.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Wonderland, from Lewis Carroll\u2019s <em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I could go and on, but what\u2019s your favorite paracosm? And did you have your own that followed you into adulthood?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(n.) A detailed, prolonged, and imaginary world created by a child that includes humans, animals, or alien creatures. Can have a definite geography, language, and history. pronunciation |\u00a0\\per-o-\u2018koz-m\\ Examples of paracosm: Middle-earth, the highly detailed fantasy world created by\u00a0J.R.R. Tolkien, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65063\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/65063\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}