State of the fantastic
State of the fantastic: studies in the theory and practice of fantastic literature and film: selected essays from the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, 1990
edited by Nicholas Ruddick
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992.
ISBN: 0313278539
DDC: 809.915
LCC: PN56
Edition: (alk. paper)
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Library: Villanova University (Villanova, PA)
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245 10 $aState of the fantastic :$bstudies in the theory
and practice of fantastic literature and film : selected
essays from the Eleventh International Conference on the
Fantastic in the Arts, 1990 /$cedited by Nicholas Ruddick.
260 $aWestport, Conn. :$bGreenwood Press,$c1992.
300 $axvi, 210 p. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aContributions to the study of science fiction and
fantasy,$x0193-6875 ;$vno. 50
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : learning to resist the wolf /
Nicholas Ruddick -- "Oh God, here come the elves!" / Jane
Yolen -- Fantasy and the narrative transaction / Brian
Attebery -- Specular SF : postmodern allegory / Veronica
Hollinger -- Knowing about knowing : paradigms of knowledge
in the postmodern fantastic / Peter Malekin -- Im/maculate :
some instances of gnostic science fiction / Reinhold Kramer
-- The reproduction of the body in space / Elisabeth
Vonarburg -- M.G. Lewis and later gothic fiction : the
numinous dissipated / Robert F. Geary -- The taming of the
screw : Rohmer's filming of Kleist's "Die Marquise von O
..." / Mary Rhiel -- Alain Robbe-Grillet and the fantastic
/ Tony Chadwick and Virginia Harger-Grinling -- Caricature,
parody, satire : narrative masks as subversion of the picaro
in Patrick Sèuskind's Perfume / Edith Borchardt.
505 0 $aReality, fiction and Wu in The man in the high
castle / Jianjiong Zhu -- Zelazny's black : the sidekick as
second self / Carl B. Yoke -- Suicide, murder, culture, and
catastrophe : Joanna Russ's We who are about to ... /
Patrick D. Murphy -- Getting a kick out of chaos :
"fortunate failure" in Greg Bear's future histories / Len
Hatfield -- Out of blue water : dream flight and narrative
construction in the novels of Toni Morrison / Grace A.
Epstein -- Dominance and subversion : the horizontal sublime
and erotic empowerment in the works of Kathy Acker / Greg
Lewis Peters -- The dawn patrol : sex, technology, and irony
in Farmer and Ballard / Gary K. Wolfe -- The making of
Frankenstein's monster : post-golem, pre-robot / Norma Rowen
-- Westworld, Futureworld, and the world's obscenity / J.P.
Telotte -- The animal at the door : modern works of horror
and the natural animal / Marian Scholtmeijer.
590 $agr
650 0 $aFantastic literature$xHistory and
criticism$xCongresses.
650 0 $aFantasy in mass media$xCongresses.
700 1 $aRuddick, Nicholas,$d1952-