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The Shape of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Olena H. Saciuk

First published 1990
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #7
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiv+270
Price $42.95
ISBN 0313261989

Data from Greenwood Press and WorldCat, OCLC.

Year Reviewer Publication
1991 Arthur O. Lewis IAFA Newsletter, Fall 1991

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Country Nobody Visits: Varieties of Fantasy in Strand's Poetry Lance Olsen Essay
9 Fantasy As Criticism in Forster's Short Fiction Leonard G. Heldreth Essay
21 Tolkien, Crowley, and Postmodernism Brian Attebery Essay
33 The Fantastic Through "The Custom-House": Hawthorne's American Romance Scott Friesner Essay
43 Kafka's "A Country Doctor" As Neoromantic Fairy Tale James S. Whitlark Essay
53 The Elusiveness of Fantasy Colin N. Manlove Essay
67 Henry James's "Maud-Evelyn": Menage a Trois Fantastique Richard Gage Essay
75 Todorov's Pure Fantastic in a Story by Julio Cortazar Julia Cruz Essay
85 Fantasmagoria and Optics in Theophile Gautier's: Arria Marcella" Grant Crichfield Essay
93 The Fantastic Stories in Las fuerzas extrañas by Leopoldo Lugones Nancy M. Kason Essay
103 The Ambiguous Animal: Evolution of the Beast-Man in Scientific Creation Myths Jill Milling Essay
117 Gender Issues in American Angels Patricia M. Burnham Essay
135 Structures of Exchange in Villiers De I'Isle-Adam's "L'Intersigne" Nancy C. Mellerski Essay
143 Medusa and the Romantic Concept of Beauty Vernon Hyles Essay
149 Two Practitioners of the Grotesque: Sherwood Anderson and Isaac Bashevis Singer Martin Schwarz Essay
155 Gautier's Spirite: Beyond the Shadow of the Idea Holly Ulmer York Essay
165 Miracles and Murder: Raymond Chandler's Fantastic Stories Michael J. Larsen Essay
173 Taoism in the Fantasties of Ursula K. Le Guin J. R. Wytenbroek Essay
181 Joyce, Yeats, Tarot and the Structure of Dubliners Lloyd Worley Essay
193 Exegeses on Stand on Zanzibar's Digressions Into Genesis Carl Schaffer Essay
201 Dream of Africa: The Function of Dream in Kateb Yacine's Nedjma Elizabeth Perry Murrell Essay
211 The Integrated Alien: Ritual Magic in the Fiction of Dion Fortune John Alego Essay
221 What Should a SF Novel Be About? Brian W. Aldiss Essay
235 The Response of Wonder: Science Fiction and Literary Theory Leo Daugherty Essay
249 The Insistence of Fantasy in Contemporary Science Fiction Film Brooks Landon Essay