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Functions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Joe Sanders

First published 1995
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #13
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xii+230
ISBN 0313295212

Data from Greenwood Press and WorldCat.

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

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Recent Trends in the Contemporary American Fairy Tale Jack Zipes Essay
19 De-Radicalizing Pinocchio Richard Wunderlich Essay
29 Reinscribing Cinderella: Jane Austen and the Fairy Tale Norma Rowen Essay
37 Shoring Framents: How Cbs's Beauty and the Beast Adapts Consensus Reality to Shape Its Magical World Dennis O'Brien Essay
47 The Corpse in the Dung Cart: The Night-Side of Nature and the Victorian Supernatural Tale Robert F. Geary Essay
55 Reader Response and Fantasy Literature: The Uses and Abuses of Interpretation in Queen Victoria's Alice in Wonderland John Pennington Essay
63 The Company We Keep: Comic Function in M.G. Lewis's the Monk Gareth M. Euridge Essay
67 Gautier, Freud and the Fantastic: Psychoanalysis Avant La Lettre? Nigel E. Smith Essay
77 Love and Automata: From Hoffmann to Lem and from Freud to Kristeva Miglena Nikolchina Essay
91 "A World of Glas": The Heroine's Quest for Identity in Spenser's Faerie Queene and Stephen R. Donaldson's Mirror of Her Dreams Laurel L. Hendrix Essay
101 What About Bob? Doubles and Demons in Twin Peaks Nancy Buffington Essay
107 Duality, Reality, and Magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Barbara Kline Essay
115 Oliphaunts in the Perilous Realm: The Function of Internal Wonder in Fantasy William Senior Essay
125 Criminal Artists and Artisans in Mysteries by E.T.A. Hoffman, Dorothy Sayers, Ernesto Sábato, Patrick Süskind, and Thomas Harris Edith Borchardt Essay
135 The Craft of the Fantastic in Anatole France's La Révolte Des Anges Juliette Gilman Essay
143 Sally Johnson: Paperworks Dorothy Joiner Essay
155 Culture As Spiritual Metaphor in Le Guin's Always Coming Home Sarah Jo Webb Essay
161 Assuming the Present in SF: Sartre in a New Dimension Bud Foote Essay
169 Finding One's Place in the Fantastic: Susan Cooper's the Dark Is Rising Valerie Krips Essay
177 Carter and Blake: The Dangers of Innocence Mary Y. Hallab Essay
185 Travels in Hyperreality: Jean Baudrillard's America and J.G. Ballard's Hello America Veronica Hollinger Essay
195 The Men Who Walked on the Moon: Images of America in the "New Wave" Science Fiction of the 1960S and 1970S Rob Latham Essay
205 The Closing of the Final Frontier: Science Fiction After 1960 Brian Attebery Essay