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Contours of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Michele K. Langford

First published 1990
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #8
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiii+232
Price $45.00
ISBN 0313266476

{{OCLC|751427023}} implies that there may be a later reprinting.

Data from WorldCat, OCLC, which has a partial table of contents. Full contents from Texas A&M Library.

Year Reviewer Publication
1991 Brian Attebery IAFA Newsletter, Fall 1991

Page Title Author(s) Type
Introduction (Contours of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts) Michele K. Langford Essay
3 Fatal Breaks Brian W. Aldiss Essay
7 Epic Reversal in Mary Shelley's the Last Man: Romantic Irony and the Roots of Science Fiction William Lomax Essay
19 From Reality to Fantasy: Displacement and Death in Albee's Zoo Story Leonard G. Heldreth Essay
29 The Self, the Referent, and the Real in Science Fiction and the Fantastic: Lem, Pynchon, Kubin, and Delany Peter Malekin Essay
39 The British and American Traditions of Speculative Fiction Brian Stableford Essay
49 "Our Dual Existence": Archetypes of Love and Death in Le Fanu's "Carmilla" Joseph Andriano Essay
57 The Panchronicon: A New Hampshire Yankee in Queen Elizabeth's Court Bud Foote Essay
65 Techniques of the Fantastic in Two West African Novels Joyce Watford Essay
76 Making the Dreamed Earth Nancy Willard Essay
81 Dorothy and Tarzan: Notes Toward a Theory of National Fantasy Jules Zanger Essay
89 The Glass Around the Jewels: Baum's Ambivalent Vision Michael Clifton Essay
101 Terminal Culture: Science Fiction Cinema in the Age of the Microchip Vivian C. Sobchack Essay
113 Natural Man, Unnatural Science: Rejection of Science in Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Lisa M. Heilbronn Essay
121 The Problem of Novelization: Dead and Buried and Nomads by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Sharon Russell Essay
131 'My God, No!': The Varieties of Christian Horror Fiction Joe Sanders Essay
141 'They're Fusing Just the Way They Should': Fusion, Transfusion, and Their Negative Correlates in The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Cynthia L. Walker Essay
149 The Element of the Fantastic and the Artist Figure in the Novels of Muriel Spark Mickey Pearlman Essay
165 Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Challenge of the Occult to Science, Reason, and Psychiatry Joel N. Feimer Essay
173 Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction: Shifting Paradigms for Science Fiction Gregory L. Zentz Essay
187 The United States in Contemporary French Fiction: A Geography of the Fantastic Ingeborg M. Kohn Essay
197 Todorov Among the Gothics: Structuring the Supernatural Moment Jack G. Voller Essay
207 Mommy Fortuna's Ontological Plenum: The Fantasy of Plenitude David M. Miller Essay