Functions of the Fantastic de Joseph L. Sanders

Functions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Joseph L. Sanders

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 noi 1995 – vârsta până la 17 ani

This collection of 23 essays represents the best papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Scholars representing diverse perspectives on the fantastic address a variety of works-including those by Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen Donaldson, Ursula Le Guin, Jean Baudrillard, Anatole France, William Blake, and Angela Carter. Subjects addressed range from children's tales and classic literature to paper sculptures and popular television series. Containing provocative applications of scholarly observation to practical life, this volume will be of interest to scholars of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and popular culture, and to others who want to know which topics are currently in vogue in the field.

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Introduction by Joe SandersRecent Trends in the Contemporary American Fairy Tale by Jack ZipesDe-Radicalizing Pinocchio by Richard WunderlichReinscribing Cinderella: Jane Austen and the Fairy Tale by Norma RowenShoring Fragments: How Beauty and the Beast Adapts Consensus Reality to Shape Its Magical World by Dennis O'BrienThe Corpse in the Dung Cart: The Night-Side of Nature and the Victorian Supernatural Tale by Robert F. GearyReader Response and Fantasy Literature: The Uses and Abuses of Interpretation in Queen Victoria's Alice in Wonderland by John PenningtonGautier, Freud, and the Fantastic: Psychoanalysis avant la lettre? by Nigel E. SmithLove and Automata: From Hoffman to Lem and From Freud to Kristeva by Miglena NikolchinaThe Company We Keep: Comic Function in M. G. Lewis' The Monk by Gareth M. Euridge"Worlds of glass": The Heroine's Quest for Identity in Spenser's Fairie Queene and Stephen R. Donaldson's Mirror of Her Dreams by Laurel L. HendrixWhat About Bob? Doubles and Demons in Twin Peaks by Nancy BuffingtonThe Silent Audience "al stounded" in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Elements of the Fantastic in Medieval Romance by Barbara KlineOliphaunts in the Perilous Realm: The Function of Internal Wonder in Fantasy by William SeniorCriminal Artists and Artisans in Mysteries by E. T. A. Hoffman, Dorothy Sayers, Ernesto Sábato, Patrick Suskind, and Thomas Harris by Edith BorchardtThe Craft of the Fantastic in Anatole France's La Révolte des anges by Juliette GilmanSally Johnson: Paperworks by Dorothy JoinerCulture as Spiritual Metaphor in Le Guin's Always Going Home by Sarah WebbAssuming the Present in SF: Sartre in a New Dimension by Bud FooteFinding One's Place in the Fantastic: Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising by Valerie KripsCarter and Blake: The Dangers of Innocence by Mary Y. HallabTravels in Hyperreality: Jean Baudrillard's America and J. G. Ballard's Hello America by Veronica HollingerThe Men Who Walked on the Moon: Images of America in "New Wave" Science Fiction of the 1960s and 1970s by Rob LathamThe Closing of the Final Frontier: Science Fiction after 1960 by Brian Attebery