Visions of the fantastic : selected essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
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Visions of the fantastic : selected essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
（Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 68）
Greenwood, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This exciting collection of essays explores the fantastic in world literature, art, theater, film, and popular culture. Highlights include artwork by Edward Carlos and the essay Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by internationally acclaimed Yeats scholar James W. Flannery. Readers will be delighted by the wit of British author Brian Aldiss in his essay If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy. From new insights into the connections between Dracula and Frankenstein to a discussion of the Internet, the lively volume offers a diverse look at fantasy and science fiction.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Allienne Becker Theoretical Perspectives Vampirism by Clemens Ruthner Mircea Eliade's Theory of the Fantastic by Elaine L. Kleiner English Language Literatures If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy by Brian Aldiss Order from Chaos: War, Pestilence, and the Near-Death Experience in Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Joan Frederick The Flesh Made Word: Miss Lonelyhearts' Sublime Grotesque by Catherine Merrill The Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Earl G. Ingersoll Foreign Literatures Virgin, Knight, and Devil: Gottfried Keller's Legends as Fantasy by Lee B. Jennings Fantastic Doubles in Cristina Fernandez Cubas's Tales for Children by Kathleen M. Glenn Hard to Be a God: The Political Antiworlds of Voznesensky, Sokolov, and the Brothers Strugatsky by Jesse Airaudi The Wail of the Banshee: Vampire Ghosts, Man-Eating Ghosts, and Other Malevolent Spirits in Irish Fairy Tales by Maureen T. Krause Comparative Literature Borges' 'El Aleph' and Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher': Two Studies in the Poetics of Gothic Romance by Robin McAllister The Emphasis on the European Contact Situation in the American Science Fiction Novel's Representation of Culture Contact by Tammy D. McJannet We Almost Ate From the Tree of Life: Fantasy and Horror in Ancient Near Eastern Religious Texts by Susan Kray Art and Creative Writing Eros and the Mer: Poetry and an Exhibition of Artwork by Edward Carlos Horror Fiction Frankenstein and Dracula: The Question of Influence by Elizabeth Miller Burger's Ballad 'Lenore': En route to Dracula by David B. Dickens Simmons and Powers: Postmodernism to Post-Romanticism by Janeen Webb Theater and Film Staging the Phantasmagorical:The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by James Flannery Francis Coppola's Secret Gardens: Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Auteur as Decadent Visionary by Kenneth Jurkiewicz Shape-Shifting, Vampires, and the Oedipus Myth: Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine by Irene Eynat-Confino Speculative Fiction Pierre Menard in Cyperspace: The Internet as Intertext by John Pennington Remembering: Time and Myth in Kleinzeit and The Medusa Frequency by Peter Malekin
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