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The Dark Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

C. W. Sullivan, III

First published 1997
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #9
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xv+217
ISBN 0313294771

Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (1988), held in Florida at the Fort Lauderdale Airport Hilton.

Data from www.abc-clio.com (current owners of Greenwood Press) and WorldCat.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 'Closer Than the Eye': The Interconnections of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Colin N. Manlove Essay
15 Rubén Darío's Short Stories: Autobiography, Fantasy, and the Fantastic Maria A. Salgado Essay
23 Hoffmann's Fantastic Sandman Allienne R. Becker Essay
33 Horacio Kalibang o los autómatas: A Nineteenth Century View of Artificial Beings Nancy M. Kason Essay
39 Genetic Experimentation: Mad Scientists and the Beast Faye Ringel Essay
49 The Unholy Circle: A Jungian Reading of Dracula Joseph Andriano Essay
59 Humankind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality: Illusion and Self-Deception in the Fiction of Peter S. Beagle Richard West Essay
67 'Turning That Corner': The Identity Crisis in Paradise Lost, Book I Jeannette H. Lutton Essay
77 The Brood of Mary: Brian Aldiss, Frankenstein, and Science Fiction Nicholas Ruddick Essay
85 Native Sons: Regionalism in Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen King Tony Magistrale Essay
93 H. C. Andersen and George MacDonald: The Perilous Flight of Fantastic Opposites Glenn E. Sadler Essay
101 'Utopia by Innuendo': The Dialogue Between Fantasy and Utopia in Doris Lessing's Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five Carol Franko Essay
113 Betty Edward's Soft Satire Dorothy Joiner Essay
121 Theater as Informer to the Future in the Works of Harlan Ellison Sue Hart Essay
129 The Rites of Passage in Contemporary Vampire Films James Backes & Sharon Russell Essay
137 'The Mother Should an Harlot Been': Revisionist Mariology in Two Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin Roger J. Mesley Essay
151 Horrific Humor: The Use of Comic Structure and Humor in Aliens Patrick D. Murphy & Eric P. Shaffer Essay
161 Kurt Vonnegut: The Once and Future Satirist Donald E. Morse Essay
173 Postmodernism in Popular Literary Fantasy Kathryn Hume Essay
183 Fantastic Tropes in The Folk of the Air Don Riggs Essay
189 Genres of Desire: A Prologue to a Theory of Science Fiction Leo Daugherty Essay