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State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film

Nicholas Ruddick

First published 1992
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #11
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xvi+210
ISBN 0313278539

  • "First published in 1992" on the copyright page. Full numberline (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1)
  • Month and day from Greenwood Press
  • Issued without dustjacket
  • No printed price
  • Contains an index (P.199-205) and 'About the editor and contributors' (P.207-210)

Year Reviewer Publication
1994 Robert Irwin Foundation, #61 Summer 1994

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 "Oh God, Here Come the Elves!" Jane Yolen Essay
15 Fantasy and the Narrative Transaction Brian Attebery Essay
29 Specular SF: Postmodern Allegory Veronica Hollinger Essay
41 Knowing About Knowing: Paradigms of Knowledge in the Postmodern Fantastic Peter Malekin Essay
49 Im/maculate: Some Instances of Gnostic Science Fiction Reinhold Kramer Essay
59 The Reproduction of the Body in Space Élisabeth Vonarburg Essay
75 M.G. Lewis and Later Gothic Fiction: The Numinous Dissipated Robert F. Geary Essay
83 The Taming of the Screw: Rohmer's Filming of Kleist's "Die Marquise Von O ..." Mary Rhiel Essay
91 Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Fantastic Tony Chadwick & Virginia Harger-Grinling Essay
97 Caricature, Parody, Satire: Narrative Masks As Subversion of the Picaro in Patrick Süskind's Perfume Edith Borchardt Essay
107 Reality, Fiction, and Wu in the Man in the High Castle Jianjiong Zhu Essay
115 Zelazny's Black: The Sidekick As Second Self Carl B. Yoke Essay
121 Suicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About to ... Patrick D. Murphy Essay
133 Getting a Kick Out of Chaos: "Fortunate Failure" in Greg Bear's Future Histories Len Hatfield Essay
141 Out of Blue Water: Dream Flight and Narrative Construction in the Novels of Toni Morrison Grace A. Epstein Essay
149 Dominance and Subversion: The Horizontal Sublime and Erotic Empowerment in the Works of Kathy Acker Greg Lewis Peters Essay
159 The Dawn Patrol: Sex, Technology, and Irony in Farmer and Ballard Gary K. Wolfe Essay
169 The Making of Frankenstein's Monster: Post-Golem, Pre-Robot Norma Rowen Essay
179 Westworld, Futureworld, and the World's Obscenity J. P. Telotte Essay
189 The Animal at the Door: Modern Works of Horror and the Natural Animal Marian Scholtmeijer Essay
xiii Introduction: Learning to Resist the Wolf Nicholas Ruddick Essay