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The shape of the fantastic : selected essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / edited by Olena H. Saciuk.

Author/creator International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. (7th : (1986 : Houston, Tex.)
Other author/creatorSaciuk, Olena H.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Greenwood Press, 1990.
Descriptionxiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 39
Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 39. ^A514648
Contents The country nobody visits: varieties of fantasy in Strand's poetry / Lance Olsen -- Fantasy as criticism in Foster's short fiction -- Tolkien, Crowley, and postmodernism / Brian Attebery -- The fantastic through "The Custom-House": Hawthorne's American romance / Scott Friesner -- Kafka's "A Country Doctor" as neoromantic fairy tale / James S. Whitlark -- The elusiveness of fantasy / Colin N. Manlove -- Henry James's "Maud-Evelyn": Menage a trois Fantastique / Richard Gage -- Todorov's pure fantastic in a story by Julio Cortazar / Julia Cruz -- Fantasmagoria and optics in Theophile Gautier's: Arria Marcella" / Grant Crichfield -- The fantastic stories in Las Fuerzas Extrabas by Leopoldo Lugones / Nancy M. Kason -- The ambigious animal: evolution of the beast-man in scientific creation myths / Jill Milling -- Gender issues in American angels / Patricia M Burnham -- Structures of exchanfe in Villiers de I'Isle-Adam's "L'Intersigne" / Nancy C. Mellerski -- Medusa and the romantic concept of beauty / Vernon Hyles 00 Two practiitioners of the grotesque: Sherwood Anderson and Isaac Bashevis Singer / Martin Scgwarz -- Gautier's Spirite: beyond the shadow od the idea / Holly Ulmer York -- Miracles and murder: Raymond Chandle's fantastic stories / Michael J. Larsen -- Taoism in the fantasties of Ursula K. Le Guin / J.R. Wytenbroek --Joyce, Yeats, Tarot, and the structure of Dubliners / Lloyd Worley -- Exegeses on stand on Zanzibar's digressions into genesis / Carl Schaffer -- Dream of Africa: the function of dream in Kateb Yacine's Nedjma / Elizabeth Perry Murrell -- The integrated alien: ritual magic in the fiction of Dion Fortune / John Alego -- What should a sf novel be about? / Brian W. Aldiss -- The response of wonder: science fiction and literary theory / Leo Daugherty -- The insistnce of fantasy in contemporary science fiction film / Brooks Landon --
Local noteJoyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016774058. See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Local noteJoyner Schlobin Coll. copy x. See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General notePapers presented at the proceedings of the conference held in Mar. 1986 in Houston.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016774058 Gift of Roger Schlobin, 2004
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016774066 Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005
LCCN 89011807
ISBN0313261989 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN56.F34 I58 1986 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner Schlobin Fantasy Collection PN56.F34 I58 1986 ✔ Available Request Material
Joyner Schlobin Fantasy Collection PN56.F34 I58 1986 ✔ Available Request Material