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- Condition
- Topic
- Fantastic Literature, Aesthetics, Literary Criticism, Literature
- Subjects
- Art & Culture
- ISBN
- 9780313290855
- Publication Name
- Modes of the Fantastic : Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- ABC-Clio, LLC
- Series
- Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Ser.
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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This book gathers 25 essays originally presented at the Twelfth Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Its animating focus is the politics of fantasy, considered both as a formal genre and a mode of apprehension. The opening essay, by Brian Attebery, sets the agenda for the book in its forthright rebuttal of fantasy's critics, who see it as either politically naive or even pernicious: rather, Attebery argues, fantasy is a radical mode of perception that contests every form of political orthodoxy. The book is divided into six large sections. The first broadly addresses the social politics of fantasy, with three essays showing how fantastic literature undermines the assumptions of realism, including such official forms as Socialist Realism. The second section, on technique, focuses on the formal strategies of fantastic texts, with three essays analyzing collage and two the grotesque. Part three offers six perspectives on fantasy's implications for issues of race and gender. Parts four and five, on nature and religion, provide eight views of how fantasy affects apprehension of the natural and the supernatural. Finally, the sixth section contains three essays assessing the politics of intertextuality.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
ABC-Clio, LLC
ISBN-10
0313290857
ISBN-13
9780313290855
eBay Product ID (ePID)
116408
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Modes of the Fantastic : Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Ser.
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
Vol. 66
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pn56
Volume Number
66
Reviews
"I can recommend MODES because pf the diversity of subjects presented in 25 essays. I enjoyed the one that proves "reality is a social contract, easily voided." Any decent SF fan knows that." True Review
Table of Content
Prefatory Note Introduction Politics The Politics (If Any) of Fantasy by Brian Attebery The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow by Joseph Andriano Fantasia for Sewercovers and Drainpipes: T.S. Eliot, Abram Tertz, and the Surreal Quest for pravda by Jesse T. Airaudi Technique Collage as Critique and Invention in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker by Robert A. Latham Louis Aragon: The Fantastic in Collage and Poetry by Pierette Frickey William Gibson and the Death of Cyberpunk by Claire Sponsler Boris Vian and the Literary Grotesque: The Animated Objects by Nicole Buffard-O'Shea Defining the Fantastic Grotesque: Nathanael West's The Dream Life of Balso Snell by Catherine Merrill Race and Gender Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood: Creating an Afrocentric Fantasy for a Black Middle Class Audience by John Gruesser Contemporary Feminist Fantasy in the Scottish Literary Tradition by Margaret Elphinstone The Madwoman in the Matrix: Joanna Russ's The Two of Them and the Psychiatric Postmodern by Deborah Wills The Marriage Metaphor in the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin by Tarya Malkki Fantasies of Sexual Hell: Manuel Puig's Pubis Angelical and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Leonard A. Cheever Woman as Reality-Demarcator in Three Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann by Lee B. Jennings Nature The "Astralis"-Poem by Novalis as Creation Myth by Edith Borchardt Shades of the Fantastic: The Forest in Jacques Cazotte's "Aventure du pèlerin" and George Sand's La Mare au diable by Juliette Gilman Fantasy and Metonymy in the Ancient Near Eastern Imagery of the Sacred Tree by David Castriota Totemic Animals in Some Shakespeare Plays by Frederick M. Burelbach Death in Natures Mortes: Vanitas in French Still Lifes of the Seventeenth Century by Randall Rhodes Religion One Hump or Two? by Brian W. Aldiss Charles Williams: Occult Fantasies/Occult Fact by Bernadette Bosky The Mercy of the Torturer: The Paradox of Compassion in Gene Wolfe's World of the New Sun by Lillian M. Heldreth Re-Visions Twain's The American Claimant and the Figure of Frankenstein: A Reading in Rhetorical Hermeneutics by Scott Michaelsen The Politics of Entropy: Revolution vs. Evolution in George Pal's 1960 Film Version of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine by Donald E. Palumbo Different Shop of Horrors: From Roger Corman's Cult Classic to Frank Oz's Mainstream Musical by Mary Pharr Index
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Criticism & Theory, General, History / General
Lccn
95-004661
Dewey Decimal
809/.915
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Literary Criticism
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