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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (10th : 1989 : Dania, Fla.) Celebration of the fantastic. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992 (OCoLC)647528863 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald E Morse; Marshall B Tymn; Csilla Bertha |
| ISBN: | 0313278148 9780313278143 |
| OCLC Number: | 24629540 |
| Notes: | Conference held in 1989 in Dania, Florida. |
| Description: | xv, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. celebrating the fantastic: this "enormous and seductive subject" / Donald E. Morse -- Victorian and modern fantasy: some contrasts / Colin N. Manlove -- The greatest fantasy on earth: the superweapon in fiction and fact / H. Bruce Franklin -- Pagan survivalL why the Shaman in modern fantast? / Roger C. Schlobin -- Some thoughts on modernism and science fiction (suggested by Robert Silverberg's Downard to the earth) / Robert A. Latham -- Godmaking in the heartland: the backgrounds of Orson Scott Card's American fantasy / Brian Attebery -- "What dreams may come?": relativity of perception in Doris Lessing's Briefing for a descent into hell / Peter Malekin -- Kipling's myth of making: creation and contradiction in Puck of Pook's Hill / Jack G. Voller -- Mithraic aspects of merlin in Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave / Marilyn Jurich -- Dolorous Stokes, or Balin at the bat: Malaud, Malory, and Chretien / John Kimsey -- Autobiography as science fiction: the strange case of Loren Eiseley / Gale E. Christianson -- The fifth child: Lessing's subversion of the pastoral / Ellen Pifer -- The ghost and the self: the supernatural fiction of Henry James / Leonard Heldreth -- Toni Morrison's Beloved: remoemory, history and the fantastic / Gary W. Daily -- Csontvary, the painter of the "Sun's path" / Csilla Bertha -- Erocs and Thanataos: the art of Alfred Kubin on the edge of the other side / Barbara F. Alexander-Schaechtelin --Fantasy according to "Mister Roger's neighborhood" and in the night kitchen / C.W. Sullivan III -- Virtual space and its boundaries in science fiction film and television: Tron, "Max Headroom," and WarGames / Judith B. Kerman -- Giving the devil more than his dues: the witches of Eastwick as fiction and film / Kenneth Jurkiewicz -- The monomyth in time travel films / Donald Palumbo -- Astronaunts, angels, and time machines: the fantastic in recent German demoncratic republic literature / Barbara Mabee -- Legitimate sequels: character structures and the subject in Greg Bear's sequel novels -- Joe Haldeman: cyberpunk before cyberpunk was cool? / Joan Gordon -- Feminist fantasy and open structure in Monique Wittig's Les Guerilleres / Laurence M. Porter -- Art versus madness in Stephen King's Misery -- Homage to Melville: Ray Bradbury and the nineteenth-century American romance / Steven E. Kagle |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 49. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Donald E. Morse, Marshall B. Tymn, and Csilla Bertha. |
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