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Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film

William Coyle

First published 1986
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #2
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages ix+250
ISBN 0313246084

Conference held at Florida Atlantic University, March 18-21, 1981.

Contents from WorldCat, OCLC. Page numbers from Texas A&M Library.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction: The Nature of Fantasy William Coyle Essay
7 Renée Vivien in the Night Garden of the Spirit Alice Parker Essay
17 Michel Tremblay and the Fantastic of Violence Ruth B. Antosh Essay
23 Swann on Swann: The Conscious Uses of Fantasy Robert A. Collins Essay
31 The Fantastic in Two Recent Works of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Janet Pérez Essay
43 Narcissism and Beyond: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Frankenstein and Fantasies of the Double Rosemary Jackson Essay
55 Meyrink's Der Golem: The Self as the Other Lee B. Jennings Essay
61 Wondrous Vision: Transformation of the Hero in Fantasy Through Encounter with the Other Karen Schaafsma Essay
73 Rite of Passage: The Vampire Tale as Cosmogonic Myth Ronald Foust Essay
87 Fantasy Island: The Dialectic of Narcissism R. Stephen Craig & Clay Steinman & Michael Budd Essay
95 Children of Horror: The Films of Val Lewton J. P. Telotte Essay
107 Superheroes as Dream Doubles James Whitlark Essay
113 Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and the Fantastic Jean-Pierre Lalande Essay
123 The Survival of the Fool in Modern Heroic Fantasy Roger C. Schlobin Essay
131 Epic of Dune: Epic of Traditions in Modern Science Fiction Michael R. Collings Essay
141 Tolkien's Mythological Calendar in the Hobbit James L. Hodge Essay
149 The Shire: A Tolkien Version of Pastoral Douglas A. Burger Essay
155 Leontes's Enemy: Madness in the Winter's Tale Richard H. Abrams Essay
163 Wanderers in Wonderland: Fantasy in the Works of Carroll and Arrabal Steven M. Taylor Essay
175 Mark Twain as Fantasist William Coyle Essay
181 The Tarot Cards As a Subversive Tool in Italo Calvo Constance D. Markey Essay
189 Jungian Patterns in Ursula K. Le Guin's the Farthest Shore Raymond H. Thompson Essay
197 Monkeys, Changelings, and Asses: Audience, Fantasy, and Belief Donald E. Morse Essay
203 Environmental Concerns in Arthur C. Clarke's the City and the Stars Thomas P. Dunn & Richard D. Erlich Essay
213 Science, Science Fiction, and Possible World Semantics George F. Sefler Essay
221 The Comedy of Fantasy: An Ecological Perspective of Joy Chant's Red Moon and Black Mountain Don D. Elgin Essay