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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Pharr |
| ISBN: | 0313323240 9780313323249 |
| OCLC Number: | 50695349 |
| Description: | xviii, 167 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Mary Pharr -- Part I. The Odyssey as a journey toward knowledge -- 1. Bodies in cyberspace : ICFA-22 guest scholar talk / Brooks Landon -- 2. Science of the times : the charlatan's odyssey in early modern France / Sharon D. King -- 3. Time and the fantastic : simultaneity in Borges, Cortázar, Lezama Lima, and Paz / Sharon L. Sieber -- 4. Criminal predisposition : futuristic genetic crime thrillers and biogovernance / Neil Gerlach -- 5. Warning : in case of rapture, just say "No" / Gene Doty -- Part II. The Odyssey as a journey toward identity -- 6. The mindless body and the bodiless mind : gyrations of body, mind, and soul in short-story fantasies by Jewish writers / Marilyn Jurich -- 7. The use, misuse, and abuse of power : the wizards of Patricia A. McKillip / Christine Mains -- 8. Resisting the mystique : women in 1950s science-fiction films / Susan A. George -- 9. Just a nobody : horror through anonymity in American Psycho / Alison M. Kelly -- 10. Fight Club : a Frankenstein for the New Millennium / Leonard G. Heldreth -- Part III. The Odyssey as a journey toward transformation -- 11. Magic, myth, and ritual in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der goldne Topf / April C. Athmann -- 12. Requiem, progress, and apocalypse in James Tiptree, Jr.'s "Slow music" / William A. Clemente -- 13. Slime and the sublime : transcendence and de-evolution in Peter Straub's and Arthur Machen's fiction / Bernadette Lynn Bosky -- 14. When books are for the birds : late capitalism and barbarity in Juan José Millás's The alphabetical order / Dale Knickerbocker -- Part IV. The Odyssey as a journey toward destiny -- 15. Ludwig Tieck and Michael Ende : the old man of the (moving) mountain / David B. Dickens -- 16. Martian odysseys : travel and narrative unrest in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars / Amy M. Clarke -- 17. A requiem for Ray Brower : encountering death in Stephen King's "The body" / Keith Philip Silva -- 18. 2001 : a space odyssey and the betrayal of language / Fred D. White. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 104 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mary Pharr. |
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