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Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts(Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts(Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)


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This book gathers 25 essays originally presented at the Twelfth Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Its animating focus is the politics of fantasy, considered both as a formal genre and a mode of apprehension. The opening essay, by Brian Attebery, sets the agenda for the book in its forthright rebuttal of fantasy's critics, who see it as either politically naive or even pernicious: rather, Attebery argues, fantasy is a radical mode of perception that contests every form of political orthodoxy. The book is divided into six large sections. The first broadly addresses the social politics of fantasy, with three essays showing how fantastic literature undermines the assumptions of realism, including such official forms as Socialist Realism. The second section, on technique, focuses on the formal strategies of fantastic texts, with three essays analyzing collage and two the grotesque. Part three offers six perspectives on fantasy's implications for issues of race and gender. Parts four and five, on nature and religion, provide eight views of how fantasy affects apprehension of the natural and the supernatural. Finally, the sixth section contains three essays assessing the politics of intertextuality.

Table of Contents:
Prefatory Note Introduction Politics The Politics (If Any) of Fantasy by Brian Attebery The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow by Joseph Andriano Fantasia for Sewercovers and Drainpipes: T.S. Eliot, Abram Tertz, and the Surreal Quest for pravda by Jesse T. Airaudi Technique Collage as Critique and Invention in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker by Robert A. Latham Louis Aragon: The Fantastic in Collage and Poetry by Pierette Frickey William Gibson and the Death of Cyberpunk by Claire Sponsler Boris Vian and the Literary Grotesque: The Animated Objects by Nicole Buffard-O'Shea Defining the Fantastic Grotesque: Nathanael West's The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Catherine Merrill Race and Gender Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood: Creating an Afrocentric Fantasy for a Black Middle Class Audience by John Gruesser Contemporary Feminist Fantasy in the Scottish Literary Tradition by Margaret Elphinstone The Madwoman in the Matrix: Joanna Russ's The Two of Them and the Psychiatric Postmodern by Deborah Wills The Marriage Metaphor in the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin by Tarya Malkki Fantasies of Sexual Hell: Manuel Puig's Pubis Angelical and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Leonard A. Cheever Woman as Reality-Demarcator in Three Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann by Lee B. Jennings Nature The "Astralis"-Poem by Novalis as Creation Myth by Edith Borchardt Shades of the Fantastic: The Forest in Jacques Cazotte's "Aventure du pèlerin" and George Sand's La Mare au diable by Juliette Gilman Fantasy and Metonymy in the Ancient Near Eastern Imagery of the Sacred Tree by David Castriota Totemic Animals in Some Shakespeare Plays by Frederick M. Burelbach Death in Natures Mortes: Vanitas in French Still Lifes of the Seventeenth Century by Randall Rhodes Religion One Hump or Two? by Brian W. Aldiss Charles Williams: Occult Fantasies/Occult Fact by Bernadette Bosky The Mercy of the Torturer: The Paradox of Compassion in Gene Wolfe's World of the New Sun by Lillian M. Heldreth Re-Visions Twain's The American Claimant and the Figure of Frankenstein: A Reading in Rhetorical Hermeneutics by Scott Michaelsen The Politics of Entropy: Revolution vs. Evolution in George Pal's 1960 Film Version of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine by Donald E. Palumbo Different Shop of Horrors: From Roger Corman's Cult Classic to Frank Oz's Mainstream Musical by Mary Pharr Index

About the Author :
ROBERT A. LATHAM is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the coeditor (with Robert A. Collins) of the first four volumes of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual. He has also been review editor of the Science Fiction Research Association Newsletter and the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Newsletter. His publications, which include over 100 reviews of fiction and nonfiction titles, have appeared in numerous venues. ROBERT A. COLLINS, Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, is the founder and first director of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, which is now in its 16th year of annual meetings. With Howard Pearce, he coedited the first two volumes of this series of selected essays, The Scope of the Fantastic. For eight years he served as editor of Fantasy Review, and since then has been general editor of The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual (Greenwood Press), now in its fifth edition. He has also published essays on Thomas Burnett Swann, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel Delany, and others.

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?I can recommend MODES because pf the diversity of subjects presented in 25 essays. I enjoyed the one that proves "reality is a social contract, easily voided." Any decent SF fan knows that.?-True Review "I can recommend MODES because pf the diversity of subjects presented in 25 essays. I enjoyed the one that proves "reality is a social contract, easily voided." Any decent SF fan knows that."-True Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780313290855
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0313290857
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • Weight: 510 gr


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