Functions of the fantastic : selected essays from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / edited by Joe Sanders.

Author/creator International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Other author Sanders, Joseph L.
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.
Descriptionxii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Fantasy literature--History and criticism. --Congresses.
Fantastic, The, in art--Congresses.
Fantastic, The, in literature--Congresses.

SeriesContributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 65
Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 65. ^A514648
Contents Recent trends in the contemporary American fairy tale / Jack Zipes -- De-radicalizing Pinocchio / Richard Wunderlich -- Reinscribing Cinderella : Jane Austen and the fairy tale / Norma Rowen -- Shoring framents : how CBS's Beauty and the beast adapts consensus reality to shape its magical world / Dennis O'Brien -- The corpse in the dung cart : The night-side of nature and the Victorian supernatural tale / Robert F. Geary -- Reader response and fantasy literature : the uses and abuses of interpretation in Queen Victoria's Alice in Wonderland / John Pennington -- Gautier, Freud and the fantastic : psychoanalysis avant la lettre? / Nigel E. Smith -- Love and automata : from Hoffmann to Lem and from Freud to Kristeva / Miglena Nikolchina -- The company we keep : comic function in M.G. Lewis's The monk / Gareth M. Euridge -- "A world of glas" : the heroine's quest for identity in Spenser's Faerie Queene and Stephen R. Donaldson's Mirror of her dreams / Laurel L. Hendrix -- What about Bob? Doubles and demons in Twin Peaks / Nancy Buffington -- Duality, reality, and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Barbara Kline -- Oliphaunts in the perilous realm : the function of internal wonder in fantasy / William Senior -- Criminal artists and artisans in mysteries by E.T.A. Hoffman, Dorothy Sayers, Ernesto Sábato, Patrick Süskind, and Thomas Harris / Edith Borchardt -- The craft of the fantastic in Anatole France's La Révolte des anges / Juliette Gilman -- Sally Johnson : paperworks / Dorothy Joiner -- Culture as spiritual metaphor in Le Guin's Always coming home / Sarah Jo Webb -- Assuming the present in SF : Sartre in a new dimension / Bud Foote -- Finding one's place in the fantastic : Susan Cooper's The dark is rising / Valerie Krips -- Carter and Blake : the dangers of innocence / Mary Y. Hallab -- Travels in hyperreality : Jean Baudrillard's America and J.G. Ballard's Hello America / Veronica Hollinger -- The men who walked on the moon : images of America in the "new wave" science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s / Rob Latham -- The closing of the final frontier : science fiction after 1960 / Brian Attebery.
Local noteSee also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016773985 Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016773993 Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005
LCCN 95010222
ISBN0313295212 (alk. paper)

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