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Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts de Allienne R. Becker

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

Autor Allienne R. Becker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 dec 1996 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This exciting collection of essays explores the fantastic in world literature, art, theater, film, and popular culture. Highlights include artwork by Edward Carlos and the essay Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by internationally acclaimed Yeats scholar James W. Flannery. Readers will be delighted by the wit of British author Brian Aldiss in his essay If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy. From new insights into the connections between Dracula and Frankenstein to a discussion of the Internet, the lively volume offers a diverse look at fantasy and science fiction.
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ISBN-13: 9780313297250
ISBN-10: 0313297258
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

ALLIENNE R. BECKER is a Professor in the Foreign Language Department at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania where she teaches courses in Comparative Literature specializing in fantasy and speculative fiction. She is author of The Lost Worlds Romance: From Dawn to Dusk (Greenwood, 1992) and numerous articles.

Cuprins

Introduction by Allienne BeckerTheoretical PerspectivesVampirism by Clemens RuthnerMircea Eliade's Theory of the Fantastic by Elaine L. KleinerEnglish Language LiteraturesIf Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy by Brian AldissOrder from Chaos: War, Pestilence, and the Near-Death Experience in Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Joan FrederickThe Flesh Made Word: Miss Lonelyhearts' Sublime Grotesque by Catherine MerrillThe Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Earl G. IngersollForeign LiteraturesVirgin, Knight, and Devil: Gottfried Keller's Legends as Fantasy by Lee B. JenningsFantastic Doubles in Cristina Fernández Cubas's Tales for Children by Kathleen M. GlennHard to Be a God: The Political Antiworlds of Voznesensky, Sokolov, and the Brothers Strugatsky by Jesse AiraudiThe Wail of the Banshee: Vampire Ghosts, Man-Eating Ghosts, and Other Malevolent Spirits in Irish Fairy Tales by Maureen T. KrauseComparative LiteratureBorges' 'El Aleph' and Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher': Two Studies in the Poetics of Gothic Romance by Robin McAllisterThe Emphasis on the European Contact Situation in the American Science Fiction Novel's Representation of Culture Contact by Tammy D. McJannetWe Almost Ate From the Tree of Life: Fantasy and Horror in Ancient Near Eastern Religious Texts by Susan KrayArt and Creative WritingEros and the Mer: Poetry and an Exhibition of Artwork by Edward CarlosHorror FictionFrankenstein and Dracula: The Question of Influence by Elizabeth MillerBürger's Ballad 'Lenore': En route to Dracula by David B. DickensSimmons and Powers: Postmodernism to Post-Romanticism by Janeen WebbTheater and FilmStaging the Phantasmagorical:The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by James FlanneryFrancis Coppola's Secret Gardens: Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Auteur as Decadent Visionary by Kenneth JurkiewiczShape-Shifting, Vampires, and the Oedipus Myth: Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine by Irene Eynat-ConfinoSpeculative FictionPierre Menard in Cyperspace: The Internet as Intertext by John PenningtonRemembering: Time and Myth in Kleinzeit and The Medusa Frequency by Peter Malekin