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The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts: Selected Essays from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Donald E. Morse

First published 1987
Series Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #5
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xiv+250
ISBN 0313255261

Conference held in 1984, Boca Raton, Florida. One OCLC record incorrectly gives the date of publication as 1984.

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "First published in 1987"
  • No date other than year. Source of date is either WorldCat, OCLC, or ABC-CLIO.
  • First printing per number line
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • Essays are broken into sections with each section having a short introduction
  • Contains several photographs and illustration but as these are for the performing arts essays and not related to written speculative fiction, they have not been indexed below

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction: The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts Donald E. Morse Essay
5 Part I: The Fantastic in World Literature: Theory and Themes Donald E. Morse Essay
7 From Providence to Terror: The Supernatural in Gothic Fantasy Robert F. Geary Essay
21 A Lesson in Xenolinguistics: Congruence, Empathy, and Computers in Joan Vinge's "Eyes of Amber" Gregory M. Shreve Essay
31 Continuity with the Past: Mythic Time in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings John A. Calabrese Essay
47 Remembering the Future: Gene Wolfe's the Book of the New Sun Peter Malekin Essay
59 The Ultimate Fantasy: Astrid Lindgren's The Brothers Lionheart Clara Juncker Essay
71 Part II: The Fantastic in World Literature: Individual Authors Donald E. Morse Essay
73 Irony Grows in My Garden: Generative Processes in Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths" Ralph Yarrow Essay
87 What Went Wrong with Alice? Beverly Lyon Clark Essay
103 The Figure of the Decadent Artist in Poe, Baudelaire, and Swinburne Roger C. Lewis Essay
115 Elements of the Fantastic in "La Granja Blanca" by Clemente Palma Nancy M. Kason Essay
123 The Play-Within-the-Play: A Study of Madness in Hubert Aquin's Neige Noire V. Harger-Grinling & A. R. Chadwick Essay
133 The Fantastic Dwelling in Jacques Cazotte's Le Diable Amoureux Juliette Gilman Essay
141 The Living Past: The Mexican's History Returns to Haunt Him in Two Short Stories by Carlos Fuentes Cynthia Duncan Essay
149 Dissolution and Discovery in the Fantastic Fiction of André Pieyre de Mandiargues Joyce O. Lowrie Essay
165 Part III: Fantastic Themes, Figures, and Techniques in the Arts: Collage, State, and Film Donald E. Morse Essay
167 Surrealist as Religious Visionary: Max Ernst's Rêve D'Une Petite Fille Qui Voulut Entrer au Carmel (1930) Charlotte Stokes Essay
183 "The Foulest Toadstool": Reviving Frankenstein in the Twentieth Century Steven Earl Forry Essay
211 The Underground Journey and the Death and Resurrection Theme in Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Donald E. Palumbo Essay
229 Bibliography (The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts) uncredited Essay
xiii Preface (The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts) Donald E. Morse Essay