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
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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
（Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 50）
Greenwood Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains five parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film.
What all the essays here have in common is that their authors are all aware of the tremendous latent power, for good and ill, of the fantastic text. We are given timely reminders of the dangers, as well as the appeal, of elves and how narrators in fantastic fictions take advantage of our desire to be part of a narrative community. We learn how some contemporary fantasists assimilate literary and scientific theory, while others seem in their fiction to require a new sociology to account for it.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction: Learning to Resist the Wolf by Nicholas Ruddick A Manifesto for Fantasists Oh God, Here Come the Elves! by Jane Yolen Unreal Rhetorics: Contemporary Fantastic Theory and Practice Fantasy and the Narrative Transaction by Brian Attebery Specular SF: Postmodern Allegory by Veronica Hollinger Knowing about Knowing: Paradigms of Knowledge in the Postmodern Fantastic by Peter Malekin Im/maculate: Some Instances of Gnostic Science Fiction by Reinhold Kramer The Reproduction of the Body in Space by Elisabeth Vonarburg Recovering the Numinous: Studies in the British and European Fantastic M.G. Lewis and Later Gothic Fiction: The Numinous Dissipated by Robert F. Geary The Taming of the Screw: Rohmer's Filming of Kleist's "Die Marquise von O ... " by Mary Rhiel Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Fantastic by Tony Chadwick and Virginia Harger-Grinling Caricature, Parody, Satire: Narrative Masks as Subversion of the Picaro in Patrick Suskind's "Perfume" by Edith Borchardt From the Empire of the Senseless: Studies in American Fantasy and Science Fiction Reality, Fiction and Wu in "The Man in the High Castle" by Jianjiong Zhu Zelazny's Black: The Sidekick as Second Self by Carl B. Yoke Suicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's "We Who Are About To ... " by Patrick D. Murphy Getting a Kick out of Chaos: "Fortunate Failure" in Greg Bear's Future Histories by Len Hatfield Out of Blue Water: Dream Flight and Narrative Construction in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Grace A. Epstein Dominance and Subversion: The Horizontal Sublime and Erotic Empowerment in the Works of Kathy Acker by Greg Lewis Peters Machine Nightmares: Sex and Techno-Horror in Fantastic Literature and Film The Dawn Patrol: Sex, Technology, and Irony in Farmer and Ballard by Gary K. Wolfe The Making of Frankenstein's Monster: Post-Golem, Pre-Robot by Norma Rowen "Westworld," "Futureworld," and the World's Obscenity by J. P. Telotte The Animal at the Door: Modern Works of Horror and the Natural Animalby Marian Scholtmeijer Index
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