| Series |
Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 49, 0193-6875 ;
Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 49. ^A514648
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| 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 -- |
| Local note | Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016774082. See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy x. See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | Conference held in 1989 in Dania, Florida. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-293) and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016774082 Gift of Roger Schlobin, 2004 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016774090 Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005 |
| LCCN | 91037133 |
| ISBN | 0313278148 (alk. paper) |
