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Fantastic Odysseys: Selected Essays from the Twenty-Second International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Mary Pharr

First published 2003
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #22
Publisher Praeger Publishers
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xviii+167
Price $79.95
ISBN 0313323240

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Bodies in Cyberspace: ICFA-22 Guest Scholar Talk Brooks Landon Essay
15 Science of the Times: The Charlatan's Odyssey in Early Modern France Sharon D. King Essay
23 Time and the Fantastic: Simultaneity in Borges, Cortázar, Lezama Lima, and Paz Sharon L. Sieber Essay
29 Criminal Predisposition: Futuristic Genetic Crime Thrillers and Biogovernance Neil Gerlach Essay
39 Warning: In Case of Raptur, Just Say "No" Gene Doty Essay
49 The Mindless Body and the Bodiless Mind: Gyrations of Body, Mind, and Soul in Short-Story Fantasies by Jewish Writers Marilyn Jurich Essay
59 The Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Power: The Wizards of Patricia A. McKillip Christine Mains Essay
65 Resisting the Mystique: Women in 1950s Science-Fiction Films Susan A. George Essay
73 Just a Nobody: Horror Through Anonymity in American Psycho Alison M. Kelly Essay
79 Fight Club: A Frankenstein for the New Millennium Leonard G. Heldreth Essay
89 Magic, Myth, and Ritual in E. T. A. Hoffman's Der goldne Topf April C. Athmann Essay
97 Requiem, Progress, and Apocalypse in James Tiptree, Jr.'s "Slow Music" William A. Clemente Essay
105 Slime and the Sublime: Transcendence and De-evolution in Peter Straub's and Arthur Machen's Fiction Bernadette Lynn Bosky Essay
115 When Books Are for the Birds: Late Capitalism and Barbarity in Juan José Millás's The Alphabetical Order Dale Knickerbocker Essay
125 Ludwig Tieck and Michael Ende: The Old Man of the (Moving) Mountain David B. Dickens Essay
133 Martian Odysseys: Travel and Narrative Unrest in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars Amy M. Clarke Essay
139 A Requiem for Ray Brower: Encountering Death in Stephen King's The Body Keith Philip Silva Essay
147 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Betrayal of Language Fred D. White Essay
155 Selected Bibliography (Fantastic Odysseys: Selected Essays from the Twenty-Second International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts) uncredited Essay
165 About the Contributors (Fantastic Odysseys: Selected Essays from the Twenty-Second International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts) uncredited Essay
xiii Introduction (Fantastic Odysseys: Selected Essays from the Twenty-Second International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts) Mary Pharr Essay