Modes of the fantastic : selected essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
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Modes of the fantastic : selected essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
（Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 66）
Greenwood Press, 1995
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Conference held Mar. 20-24, 1991, Fort Lauderdale, Fla
Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This book gathers 25 essays originally presented at the Twelfth Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Its animating focus is the politics of fantasy, considered both as a formal genre and a mode of apprehension. The opening essay, by Brian Attebery, sets the agenda for the book in its forthright rebuttal of fantasy's critics, who see it as either politically naive or even pernicious: rather, Attebery argues, fantasy is a radical mode of perception that contests every form of political orthodoxy.
The book is divided into six large sections. The first broadly addresses the social politics of fantasy, with three essays showing how fantastic literature undermines the assumptions of realism, including such official forms as Socialist Realism. The second section, on technique, focuses on the formal strategies of fantastic texts, with three essays analyzing collage and two the grotesque. Part three offers six perspectives on fantasy's implications for issues of race and gender. Parts four and five, on nature and religion, provide eight views of how fantasy affects apprehension of the natural and the supernatural. Finally, the sixth section contains three essays assessing the politics of intertextuality.
Table of Contents
Prefatory Note
Introduction
Politics
The Politics (If Any) of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow by Joseph Andriano
Fantasia for Sewercovers and Drainpipes: T.S. Eliot, Abram Tertz, and the Surreal Quest for pravda by Jesse T. Airaudi
Technique
Collage as Critique and Invention in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker by Robert A. Latham
Louis Aragon: The Fantastic in Collage and Poetry by Pierette Frickey
William Gibson and the Death of Cyberpunk by Claire Sponsler
Boris Vian and the Literary Grotesque: The Animated Objects by Nicole Buffard-O'Shea
Defining the Fantastic Grotesque: Nathanael West's The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Catherine Merrill
Race and Gender
Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood: Creating an Afrocentric Fantasy for a Black Middle Class Audience by John Gruesser
Contemporary Feminist Fantasy in the Scottish Literary Tradition by Margaret Elphinstone
The Madwoman in the Matrix: Joanna Russ's The Two of Them and the Psychiatric Postmodern by Deborah Wills
The Marriage Metaphor in the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin by Tarya Malkki
Fantasies of Sexual Hell: Manuel Puig's Pubis Angelical and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Leonard A. Cheever
Woman as Reality-Demarcator in Three Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann by Lee B. Jennings
Nature
The "Astralis"-Poem by Novalis as Creation Myth by Edith Borchardt
Shades of the Fantastic: The Forest in Jacques Cazotte's "Aventure du pèlerin" and George Sand's La Mare au diable by Juliette Gilman
Fantasy and Metonymy in the Ancient Near Eastern Imagery of the Sacred Tree by David Castriota
Totemic Animals in Some Shakespeare Plays by Frederick M. Burelbach
Death in Natures Mortes: Vanitas in French Still Lifes of the Seventeenth Century by Randall Rhodes
Religion
One Hump or Two? by Brian W. Aldiss
Charles Williams: Occult Fantasies/Occult Fact by Bernadette Bosky
The Mercy of the Torturer: The Paradox of Compassion in Gene Wolfe's World of the New Sun by Lillian M. Heldreth
Re-Visions
Twain's The American Claimant and the Figure of Frankenstein: A Reading in Rhetorical Hermeneutics by Scott Michaelsen
The Politics of Entropy: Revolution vs. Evolution in George Pal's 1960 Film Version of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine by Donald E. Palumbo
Different Shop of Horrors: From Roger Corman's Cult Classic to Frank Oz's Mainstream Musical by Mary Pharr
Index
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