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Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Allienne R. Becker

First published 1996
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #15
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xxi+205
Price $55.00
ISBN 0313297258

Data from Greenwood Press and WorldCat.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Vampirism As Political Theory: Voltaire to Alfred Rosenberg and Elfriede Jelinek Clemens Ruthner Essay
13 Mircea Eliade's Theory of the Fantastic Elaine L. Kleiner Essay
21 If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy Brian Aldiss Essay
25 Order from Chaos: War, Pestilence, and the Near-Death Experience in Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider Joan Frederick Essay
33 The Flesh Made Word: Miss Lonelyhearts' Sublime Grotesque Catherine Merrill Essay
39 The Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale Earl G. Ingersoll Essay
51 Virgin, Knight, and Devil: Gottfried Keller's Legends As Fantasy Lee B. Jennings Essay
57 Fantastic Doubles in Cristina Fernández Cubas' Tales for Children Kathleen M. Glenn Essay
63 Hard to Be a God: The Political Antiworlds of Voznesensky, Sokolov, and the Brothers Strugatsky Jesse T. Airaudi Essay
71 The Wail of the Banshee: Vampire Ghosts, Man-Eating Ghosts, and Other Malevolent Spirits in Irish Fairy Tales Maureen T. Krause Essay
83 Borges' "El Aleph" and Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher": Two Studies in the Poetics of Gothic Romance Robin Mcallister Essay
89 The Emphasis on the European Contact Situation in the American Science-Fiction Novel's Representation of Culture Tammy D. McJannet Essay
95 We Almost Ate from the Tree of Life: Fantasy and Horror in Ancient Near Eastern Religious Texts Susan Kray Essay
105 "Eros and the Mer": Poetry and an Exhibition of Art Edward Carlos Essay
123 Frankenstein and Dracula: The Question of Influence Elizabeth Miller Essay
131 Bürger's Ballad "Lenore": En Route to Dracula David B. Dickens Essay
139 Simmons and Powers: Postmodernism to Postromanticism Janeen Webb Essay
149 Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats James W. Flannery Essay
167 Francis Coppola's Secret Gardens: Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Auteur As Decadent Visionary Kenneth Jurkiewicz Essay
173 Shape-Shifting, Vampires, and the Oedipus Myth: Jean Cocteau's the Infernal Machine Irene Eynat-Confino Essay
181 Pierre Menard in Cyberspace: The Internet As Intertext John Pennington Essay
195 Re-Membering: Time and Myth in Kleinzeit and the Medusa Frequency Peter Malekin Essay