State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literatu

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This collection of 20 essays on the fantastic in the arts covers fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film.

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This collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains five parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film.What all the essays here have in common is that their authors are all aware of the tremendous latent power, for good and ill, of the fantastic text. We are given timely reminders of the dangers, as well as the appeal, of elves and how narrators in fantastic fictions take advantage of our desire to be part of a narrative community. We learn how some contemporary fantasists assimilate literary and scientific theory, while others seem in their fiction to require a new sociology to account for it.

Author Biography

NICHOLAS RUDDICK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He has two books forthcoming from Greenwood Press: Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction and British Science Fiction: A Chronology.

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction: Learning to Resist the Wolf by Nicholas RuddickA Manifesto for FantasistsOh God, Here Come the Elves! by Jane YolenUnreal Rhetorics: Contemporary Fantastic Theory and PracticeFantasy and the Narrative Transaction by Brian AtteberySpecular SF: Postmodern Allegory by Veronica HollingerKnowing about Knowing: Paradigms of Knowledge in the Postmodern Fantastic by Peter MalekinIm/maculate: Some Instances of Gnostic Science Fiction by Reinhold KramerThe Reproduction of the Body in Space by Elisabeth VonarburgRecovering the Numinous: Studies in the British and European FantasticM.G. Lewis and Later Gothic Fiction: The Numinous Dissipated by Robert F. GearyThe Taming of the Screw: Rohmer's Filming of Kleist's "Die Marquise von O . . . " by Mary RhielAlain Robbe-Grillet and the Fantastic by Tony Chadwick and Virginia Harger-GrinlingCaricature, Parody, Satire: Narrative Masks as Subversion of the Picaro in Patrick Süskind's "Perfume" by Edith BorchardtFrom the Empire of the Senseless: Studies in American Fantasy and Science FictionReality, Fiction and Wu in "The Man in the High Castle" by Jianjiong ZhuZelazny's Black: The Sidekick as Second Self by Carl B. YokeSuicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's "We Who Are About To . . . " by Patrick D. MurphyGetting a Kick out of Chaos: "Fortunate Failure" in Greg Bear's Future Histories by Len HatfieldOut of Blue Water: Dream Flight and Narrative Construction in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Grace A. EpsteinDominance and Subversion: The Horizontal Sublime and Erotic Empowerment in the Works of Kathy Acker by Greg Lewis PetersMachine Nightmares: Sex and Techno-Horror in Fantastic Literature and FilmThe Dawn Patrol: Sex, Technology, and Irony in Farmer and Ballard by Gary K. WolfeThe Making of Frankenstein's Monster: Post-Golem, Pre-Robot by Norma Rowen"Westworld," "Futureworld," and the World's Obscenity by J. P. TelotteThe Animal at the Door: Modern Works of Horror and the Natural Animalby Marian ScholtmeijerIndex

Review

?As a critical collection about fantasy this collection belongs on every fiction authors reading list. It proposes some important views about practice and levels of believability. Recommended for libraries.?-Reader's Review"As a critical collection about fantasy this collection belongs on every fiction authors reading list. It proposes some important views about practice and levels of believability. Recommended for libraries."-Reader's Review

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This collection of essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains 5 parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film.

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This collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains five parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film. What all the essays here have in common is that their authors are all aware of the tremendous latent power, for good and ill, of the fantastic text. We are given timely reminders of the dangers, as well as the appeal, of elves and how narrators in fantastic fictions take advantage of our desire to be part of a narrative community. We learn how some contemporary fantasists assimilate literary and scientific theory, while others seem in their fiction to require a new sociology to account for it.

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"As a critical collection about fantasy this collection belongs on every fiction authors reading list. It proposes some important views about practice and levels of believability. Recommended for libraries."- Reader's Review

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This collection of essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains 5 parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film.

Details ISBN0313278539 Series Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy Year 1992 ISBN-10 0313278539 ISBN-13 9780313278532 Format Hardcover Country of Publication United States Edited by Nicholas Ruddick DEWEY 809.915 Birth 1952 Short Title STATE OF THE FANTASTIC Language English Media Book Series Number 50 Publication Date 1992-07-22 Place of Publication Westport Illustrations black & white illustrations Pages 232 Author Nicholas Ruddick Subtitle Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc UK Release Date 1992-07-22 AU Release Date 1992-07-22 NZ Release Date 1992-07-22 US Release Date 1992-07-22 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Audience Undergraduate Audience Age 7-17 We've got this

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