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Visions of the fantastic : selected essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Author: Allienne R Becker
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 68.
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Genre/Form: Congresses
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International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (15th : 1994)
Visions of the fantastic.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996
(OCoLC)654906890
Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Allienne R Becker
ISBN: 0313297258 9780313297250
OCLC Number: 33407910
Notes: The meeting was held in March, 1994.
Description: xxi, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Vampirism as political theory : Voltaire to Alfred Rosenberg and Elfriede Jelinek / Clemens Ruthner --
Mircea Eliade's theory of the fantastic / Elaine L. Kleiner --
If Hamlet's uncle had been a nicer guy / Brian Aldiss --
Order from chaos : war, pestilence, and the near-death experience in Katherine Anne Porter's Pale horse, pale rider / Joan Frederick --
The flesh made word : Miss Lonelyhearts' sublime grotesque / Catherine Merrill --
The engendering of narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Earl G. Ingersoll --
Virgin, knight, and devil : Gottfried Keller's legends as fantasy / Lee B. Jennings --
Fantastic doubles in Cristina Fernández Cubas' tales for children / Kathleen M. Glenn --
Hard to be a god : the political antiworlds of Voznesensky, Sokolov, and the brothers Strugatsky / Jesse T. Airaudi --
The wail of the banshee : vampire ghosts, man-eating ghosts, and other malevolent spirits in Irish fairy tales / Maureen T. Krause --
Borges' "El Aleph" and Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" : two studies in the poetics of Gothic romance / Robin McAllister --
The emphasis on the European contact situation in the American science-fiction novel's representation of culture / Tammy D. McJannet --
We almost ate from the tree of life : fantasy and horror in ancient Near Eastern religious texts / Susan Kray --
"Eros and the mer" : poetry and an exhibition of art / Edward Carlos --
Frankenstein and Dracula : the question of influence / Elizabeth Miller --
Bürger's ballad "Lenore" : en route to Dracula / David B. Dickens --
Simmons and powers : postmodernism to postromanticism / Janeen Webb --
Staging the phantasmagorical : the theatrical challenges and rewards of William Butler Yeats / James W. Flannery --
Francis Coppola's secret gardens : Bram Stoker's Dracula and the auteur as decadent visionary / Kenneth Jurkiewicz --
Shape-shifting, vampires, and the Oedipus myth : Jean Cocteau's The infernal machine / Irene Eynat-Confino --
Pierre Menard in cyberspace : the Internet as intertext / John Pennington --
Re-membering : time and myth in Kleinzeit and The Medusa frequency / Peter Malekin.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 68.
Responsibility: edited by Allienne R. Becker.

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