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The shape of the fantastic : selected essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / edited by Olena H. Saciuk.
| Author/creator | International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts |
| Other author | Saciuk, Olena H. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Greenwood Press, 1990. |
| Description | xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 39 Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 39. ^A514648 |
| Contents | The country nobody visits: varieties of fantasy in Strand's poetry / Lance Olsen -- Fantasy as criticism in Foster's short fiction -- Tolkien, Crowley, and postmodernism / Brian Attebery -- The fantastic through "The Custom-House": Hawthorne's American romance / Scott Friesner -- Kafka's "A Country Doctor" as neoromantic fairy tale / James S. Whitlark -- The elusiveness of fantasy / Colin N. Manlove -- Henry James's "Maud-Evelyn": Menage a trois Fantastique / Richard Gage -- Todorov's pure fantastic in a story by Julio Cortazar / Julia Cruz -- Fantasmagoria and optics in Theophile Gautier's: Arria Marcella" / Grant Crichfield -- The fantastic stories in Las Fuerzas Extrabas by Leopoldo Lugones / Nancy M. Kason -- The ambigious animal: evolution of the beast-man in scientific creation myths / Jill Milling -- Gender issues in American angels / Patricia M Burnham -- Structures of exchanfe in Villiers de I'Isle-Adam's "L'Intersigne" / Nancy C. Mellerski -- Medusa and the romantic concept of beauty / Vernon Hyles 00 Two practiitioners of the grotesque: Sherwood Anderson and Isaac Bashevis Singer / Martin Scgwarz -- Gautier's Spirite: beyond the shadow od the idea / Holly Ulmer York -- Miracles and murder: Raymond Chandle's fantastic stories / Michael J. Larsen -- Taoism in the fantasties of Ursula K. Le Guin / J.R. Wytenbroek --Joyce, Yeats, Tarot, and the structure of Dubliners / Lloyd Worley -- Exegeses on stand on Zanzibar's digressions into genesis / Carl Schaffer -- Dream of Africa: the function of dream in Kateb Yacine's Nedjma / Elizabeth Perry Murrell -- The integrated alien: ritual magic in the fiction of Dion Fortune / John Alego -- What should a sf novel be about? / Brian W. Aldiss -- The response of wonder: science fiction and literary theory / Leo Daugherty -- The insistnce of fantasy in contemporary science fiction film / Brooks Landon -- |
| Local note | 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 | Papers presented at the proceedings of the conference held in Mar. 1986 in Houston. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016774058 Gift of Roger Schlobin, 2004 |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016774066 Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005 |
| LCCN | 89011807 |
| ISBN | 0313261989 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN56.F34 I58 1986 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |
| Joyner | Schlobin Fantasy Collection | PN56.F34 I58 1986 | ✔ Available | Request Material |
| Joyner | Schlobin Fantasy Collection | PN56.F34 I58 1986 | ✔ Available | Request Material |