Functions of the fantastic : selected essays from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / edited by Joe Sanders.
| Author/creator | International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 1992) |
| Other author/creator | Sanders, Joseph L. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995. |
| Description | xii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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| Series | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 65 Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 65. ^A514648 |
| Contents | Recent trends in the contemporary American fairy tale / Jack Zipes -- De-radicalizing Pinocchio / Richard Wunderlich -- Reinscribing Cinderella : Jane Austen and the fairy tale / Norma Rowen -- Shoring framents : how CBS's Beauty and the beast adapts consensus reality to shape its magical world / Dennis O'Brien -- The corpse in the dung cart : The night-side of nature and the Victorian supernatural tale / Robert F. Geary -- Reader response and fantasy literature : the uses and abuses of interpretation in Queen Victoria's Alice in Wonderland / John Pennington -- Gautier, Freud and the fantastic : psychoanalysis avant la lettre? / Nigel E. Smith -- Love and automata : from Hoffmann to Lem and from Freud to Kristeva / Miglena Nikolchina -- The company we keep : comic function in M.G. Lewis's The monk / Gareth M. Euridge -- "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 -- What about Bob? Doubles and demons in Twin Peaks / Nancy Buffington -- Duality, reality, and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Barbara Kline -- Oliphaunts in the perilous realm : the function of internal wonder in fantasy / William Senior -- Criminal artists and artisans in mysteries by E.T.A. Hoffman, Dorothy Sayers, Ernesto Sábato, Patrick Süskind, and Thomas Harris / Edith Borchardt -- The craft of the fantastic in Anatole France's La Révolte des anges / Juliette Gilman -- Sally Johnson : paperworks / Dorothy Joiner -- Culture as spiritual metaphor in Le Guin's Always coming home / Sarah Jo Webb -- Assuming the present in SF : Sartre in a new dimension / Bud Foote -- Finding one's place in the fantastic : Susan Cooper's The dark is rising / Valerie Krips -- Carter and Blake : the dangers of innocence / Mary Y. Hallab -- Travels in hyperreality : Jean Baudrillard's America and J.G. Ballard's Hello America / Veronica Hollinger -- The men who walked on the moon : images of America in the "new wave" science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s / Rob Latham -- The closing of the final frontier : science fiction after 1960 / Brian Attebery. |
| Local note | Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016773985. See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016773985 Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005 |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Schlobin Coll. copy 30372016773993 Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005 |
| LCCN | 95010222 |
| ISBN | 0313295212 (alk. paper) |
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