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The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Donald E. Morse & Marshall B. Tymn & Csilla Bertha

First published 1992
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #10
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xv+309
ISBN 0313278148

Data from Greenwood Press and WorldCat, OCLC.

Page Title Author(s) Type
Introduction. Celebrating the Fantastic: This "Enormous and Seductive Subject" Donald E. Morse Essay
9 Victorian and Modern Fantasy: Some Contrasts Colin N. Manlove Essay
23 The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact H. Bruce Franklin Essay
39 Pagan Survival: Why the Shaman in Modern Fantasy? Roger C. Schlobin Essay
49 Some Thoughts on Modernism and Science Fiction (Suggested by Robert Silverberg's Downard to the Earth) Robert A. Latham Essay
61 Godmaking in the Heartland: The Backgrounds of Orson Scott Card's American Fantasy Brian Attebery Essay
73 "What Dreams May Come?": Relativity of Perception in Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent Into Hell Peter Malekin Essay
81 Kipling's Myth of Making: Creation and Contradiction in Puck of Pook's Hill Jack G. Voller Essay
91 Mithraic Aspects of Merlin in Mary Stewart's the Crystal Cave Marilyn Jurich Essay
103 Dolorous Stokes, Or Balin at the Bat: Malaud, Malory, and Chretien John Kimsey Essay
113 Autobiography As Science Fiction: The Strange Case of Loren Eiseley Gale E. Christianson Essay
123 The Fifth Child: Lessing's Subversion of the Pastoral Ellen Pifer Essay
133 The Ghost and the Self: The Supernatural Fiction of Henry James Leonard Heldreth Essay
141 Toni Morrison's Beloved: Rememory, History and the Fantastic Gary W. Daily Essay
151 Csontváry, the Painter of the "Sun's Path" Csilla Bertha Essay
165 Eros and Thanatos: The Art of Alfred Kubin on the Edge of the Other Side Barbara F. Alexander-Schaechtelin Essay
183 Fantasy According to Mister Roger's Neighborhood and In the Night Kitchen Sullivan C. W. Sullivan, III Essay
191 Virtual Space and Its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television: Tron, "Max Headroom," and Wargames Judith B. Kerman Essay
205 Giving the Devil More Than His Dues: The Witches of Eastwick As Fiction and Film Kenneth Jurkiewicz Essay
211 The Monomyth in Time Travel Films Donald E. Palumbo Essay
221 Astronauts, Angels, and Time Machines: The Fantastic in Recent German Democratic Republic Literature Barbara Mabee Essay
237 Legitimate Sequels: Character Structures and the Subject in Greg Bear's Sequel Novels Len Hatfield Essay
251 Joe Haldeman: Cyberpunk Before Cyberpunk Was Cool? Joan Gordon Essay
261 Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure in Monique Wittig's Les Guerilleres Laurence M. Porter Essay
271 Art Versus Madness in Stephen King's Misery Tony Magistrale Essay
279 Homage to Melville: Ray Bradbury and the Nineteenth-Century American Romance Steven E. Kagle Essay