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The Scope of the Fantastic — Theory, Technique, Major Authors: Selected Essays from the First International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film

Robert A. Collins & Howard D. Pearce

First published 1985
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiii+295
ISBN 0313234477

(First) International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film (1980, Florida Atlantic University)

Data from Greenwood Press and WorldCat. Contents from Texas A&M Library.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Appeal of the Fantastic: Old World for New Eric Rabkin Essay
3 Introduction: The Appeal of the Fantastic: Old Worlds for New E. S. Rabkin Essay
19 Copernican Revolution in the History of Fantastic Literature ... Peter Cersowsky Essay
27 Fantastic in Contemporary Fiction R. A. Schwartz Essay
33 Todorov and the Existentialists Jan Hokenson Essay
41 Todorov's Fantastic, Kayser's Grotesque, and West's Miss Lonelyhearts R. R. Butler Essay
48 Poetics of the Uncanny: E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'Sandman' S. L. Frisch Essay
57 Uncle Henry's Trousers; or, the Metaphysical Status of Other Worlds Stephen Prickett Essay
69 Primitive, Newtonian, and Einsteinian Fantasies: Three Worldviews J. D. Ziegler Essay
77 Imaginary: Synthesis of Fantasy and Reality W. G. Plank Essay
83 Consciousness, the Fantastic, and the Feading Process Ralph Yarrow Essay
95 Dislocating the Fantastic: Can this Old Genre be Mobilized? H. D. Pearce Essay
105 Mysticism, Esoterism, and Fantastic Literature D. T. Jaen Essay
125 H. G. Wells, Viktor Shklovsky, and Paul de Man: The Subversion of Romanticism Clarence Lindsay Essay
135 Poe's 'Bernice': Philosophical Fantasy and its Pitfalls Jules Zanger Essay
159 Structure of the Fantastic in Cortazar's Cambio De Luces A. B. Chanady Essay
165 Martin Gaite, Todorov, and the Fantastic K. M. Glenn Essay
173 Words and Worlds: The Creation of a Fantasy Universe in Zelazny, Lee, and Anthony M. R. Collings Essay
183 Fantastic Pairing: Edward Taylor and Donald Barthelme Carter Martin Essay
193 I. B. Singer's Yenne Velt Mark Bernheim Essay
201 Fantastic Pastoral of Thomas Burnett Swann S. C. Fredericks Essay
207 Arthur Schnitzler and the Fantastic F. J. Beharriell Essay
215 Fantastic Travel Adventures of Henri Michaux Laurie Edson Essay
221 Fantastic in the Works of Franz Kafka Hans Ternes Essay
231 Palaces of the Looking Glass: Borges's Deconstruction of Metaphysics Stanton Hager Essay
239 Warp and Weft: Patterns of Artistry in Nabokov's Pale Fire M. P. Feeley Essay
247 Hegelian Stratagems in Calvino's Invisible Cities Kenneth Smith Essay
255 Tolkien's Elvish Craft and Frodo's Mithril Coat D. A. Burger Essay
263 Fathoming Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea David Ketterer Essay