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Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Robert A. Collins & Robert A. Latham

First published 1995
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xxi+233
ISBN 0313290857

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Year Reviewer Publication
1996 Gary K. Wolfe Locus, #422 March 1996

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Politics (If Any) of Fantasy Brian Attebery Essay
14 The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Joseph Andriano Essay
21 Fantasia for Sewercovers and Drainpipes: T.S. Eliot, Abram Tertz, and the Surreal Quest for Pravda Jesse T. Airaudi Essay
29 Collage As Critique and Invention in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker Robert A. Latham Essay
38 Louis Aragon: The Fantastic in Collage and Poetry Pierrette Frickey Essay
47 William Gibson and the Death of Cyberpunk Claire Sponsler Essay
56 Boris Vian and the Literary Grotesque: The Animated Objects Nicole Buffard-O'Shea Essay
64 Defining the Fantastic Grotesque: Nathanael West's the Dream Life of Balso Snell Catherine Merrill Essay
74 Pauline Hopkins' of One Blood: Creating an Afrocentric Fantasy for a Black Middle Class Audience John Gruesser Essay
84 Contemporary Feminist Fantasy in the Scottish Literary Tradition Margaret Elphinstone Essay
93 The Madwoman in the Matrix: Joanna Russ's the Two of Them and the Psychiatric Postmodern Deborah Wills Essay
100 The Marriage Metaphor in the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin Tarya Malkki Essay
110 Fantasies of Sexual Hell: Manuel Puig's Pubis Angelical and Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale Leonard A. Cheever Essay
122 Woman as Reality-Demarcator in Three Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann Lee B. Jennings Essay
129 The "Astralis" Poem by Novalis As Creation Myth Edith Borchardt Essay
137 Shades of the Fantastic: The Forest in Jacques Cazotte's "Aventure Du Pèlerin" and George Sand's La Mare Au Diable Juliette Gilman Essay
143 Fantasy and Metonymy in the Ancient Near Eastern Imagery of the Sacred Tree David Castriota Essay
155 Totemic Animals in Some Shakespeare Plays Frederick M. Burelbach Essay
161 Death in Natures Mortes: Vanitas in French Still Lifes of the Seventeenth Century Randall Rhodes Essay
173 One Hump Or Two? Brian W. Aldiss Essay
176 Charles Williams: Occult Fantasies/Occult Fact Bernadette Bosky Essay
186 The Mercy of the Torturer: The Paradox of Compassion in Gene Wolfe's World of the New Sun Lillian M. Heldreth Essay
195 Twain's the American Claimant and the Figure of Frankenstein: A Reading in Rhetorical Hermeneutics Scott Michaelsen Essay
204 The Politics of Entropy: Revolution Vs Evolution in George Pal's 1960 Film Version of H. G. Wells's the Time Machine Donald E. Palumbo Essay
212 Different Shops of Horrors: From Roger Corman's Cult Classic to Frank Oz's Mainstream Musical Roger Corman Essay