Meaning of paracosmos | Babel Free

Definitions

The realm of imagination; an imaginary world.

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Examples

“Day dreaming and fantasies which are flights into the paracosmos, are an antithesis of creativity which is the most intense land of action.”

“More simply stated, the paracosmos reflects a writer's interest in examining a (generally) rather small number of persons, or types of persons, in a variety of circumstances and relationships: he has marked out a portion of the world as his own and works upon it to make it his.”

“Such artists tend to create an imaginary world, a paracosmos where good and evil are starkly represented, where evil powers always challenge the good ones and need to be vanquished time and again.”

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