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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: 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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