The shape of the fantastic : selected essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
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書誌事項
The shape of the fantastic : selected essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
（Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 39）
Greenwood Press, 1990
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注記
Papers presented at the proceedings of the conference held in Mar. 1986 in Houston
Includes bibliographical references
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Grotesques, angels, Beast-Man, and the Medusa are among the marvelous cast of characters analyzed in this volume. Originally presented at the 7th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts held in 1986, these essays are stimulating responses by scholars to a range of creative works by Mark Strand, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kafka, Tolkein, Henry James, Julio Cortazar, Sherwood Anderson, Ursula Le Guin, I.B. Singer, Joyce, and others. Examining both mainstream and fantasy literature from many nations, the authors zero-in on the myriad shapes of the fantastic and study the world of SF and film. Five sections treat the fantastic from various enlightening perspectives and seven figures illustrate the essays' provocative theses.
In Part I, Discovery and Interpretation, five authors sleuth out surprising elements of fantasy in poetry, short fiction, and a neo-Romantic fairy tale. Also in Part I, an inquiry is made of fantasy in the post-modernist movement. The Inexplicable Reality of Part II refers to deaths that are anything but terminal and four essays chronicle fantastic occurrences whose scientific rationale is tenuous at best. The fifth article traces the elusiveness of fantasy in a number of authors and works. Beast-Man, angels, the Medusa, and other Marvelous Beings are the subject of six essays in Part III. In Part IV, Fantasy in Symbiosis with other Forms, six essays consider the combination of fantasy with murder mystery, with taoism, with the symbolism of the tarot, with Freudian dreams, and with other genres. In the final section, From Fantasy to Science Fiction: Critical Considerations, essays address fantasy and Science Fiction in film, present a discussion between 2 critics of science fiction, and view the history and development of the contemporary SF novel. Series Editor Marshall B. Tymn's selected bibliography of criticism on the fantastic supplements the bibliographies that follow each essay and completes this remarkable work: fascinating reading for generalists; a necessity for students and scholars, aestheticians and critics of the fantasy and SF genres in literature, film, and art.
目次
Discovery and Interpretation The Country Nobody Visits: Varieties of Fantasy in Strand's Poetry Fantasy as Criticism in Forster's Short Fiction Tolkien, Crowley, and Postmodernism The Fantastic Through "The Custom-House": Hawthorne's American Romance Kafka's "A Country Doctor" as Neo-Romantic Fairy Tale Inexplicable Reality The Elusiveness of Fantasy Henry James's "Maud-Evelyn": Menage a Trois Fantastique Todorov's Pure Fantastic in a Story by Julio Cortazar Fantasmagoria and Optics in Theophile Gautier's "Arria Marcella" The Fantastic Stories in Las fuerzas Extranas by Leopoldo Lugones Marvelous Beings The Ambiguous Animal: Evolution of the Beast-Man in Scientific Creation Myths Gender Issues in American Angels Structures of Exchange in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "L'Intersigne" Medusa and the Romantic Concept of Beauty Two Practitioners of the Grotesque: Sherwood Anderson and Isaac Bashevis Singer Gautier's Spirite: Beyond the Shadow of the Idea Fantasy in Symbiosis with Other Forms Miracles and Murder: Raymond Chandler's Fantastic Stories Taoism in the Fantasies of Ursula K. Le Guin Joyce, Yeats, Tarot, and the Structure of Dubliners Exegeses on Stand on Zanzibar's Digressions into Genesis Dream of Africa: The Function of Dream in Kateb Yacine's Nedjma Elizabeth Perry Murell The Integrated Alien: Ritual Magic in the Fiction of Dion Fortune From Fantasy to Science Fiction: Critical Considerations What Should a SF Novel Be About The Respone of Wonder: Science Fiction and Literary Theory The Insistence of Fantasy in Contemporary Science Fiction Film A Selected Bibliography of Criticism on the Fantastic Index
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