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Visions of the fantastic : selected essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / edited by Allienne R. Becker.
| Author/creator | International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts |
| Other author | Becker, Allienne R. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. |
| Description | xxi, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 68, 0193-6875 ; Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 68. ^A514648 |
| Contents | Vampirism as political theory : Voltaire to Alfred Rosenberg and Elfriede Jelinek / Clemens Ruthner -- Mircea Eliade's theory of the fantastic / Elaine L. Kleiner -- If Hamlet's uncle had been a nicer guy / Brian Aldiss -- Order from chaos : war, pestilence, and the near-death experience in Katherine Anne Porter's Pale horse, pale rider / Joan Frederick -- The flesh made word : Miss Lonelyhearts' sublime grotesque / Catherine Merrill -- The engendering of narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Earl G. Ingersoll -- Virgin, knight, and devil : Gottfried Keller's legends as fantasy / Lee B. Jennings -- Fantastic doubles in Cristina Fernández Cubas' tales for children / Kathleen M. Glenn -- Hard to be a god : the political antiworlds of Voznesensky, Sokolov, and the brothers Strugatsky / Jesse T. Airaudi -- The wail of the banshee : vampire ghosts, man-eating ghosts, and other malevolent spirits in Irish fairy tales / Maureen T. Krause -- Borges' "El Aleph" and Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" : two studies in the poetics of Gothic romance / Robin McAllister -- The emphasis on the European contact situation in the American science-fiction novel's representation of culture / Tammy D. McJannet -- We almost ate from the tree of life : fantasy and horror in ancient Near Eastern religious texts / Susan Kray -- "Eros and the mer" : poetry and an exhibition of art / Edward Carlos -- Frankenstein and Dracula : the question of influence / Elizabeth Miller -- Bürger's ballad "Lenore" : en route to Dracula / David B. Dickens -- Simmons and powers : postmodernism to postromanticism / Janeen Webb -- Staging the phantasmagorical : the theatrical challenges and rewards of William Butler Yeats / James W. Flannery -- Francis Coppola's secret gardens : Bram Stoker's Dracula and the auteur as decadent visionary / Kenneth Jurkiewicz -- Shape-shifting, vampires, and the Oedipus myth : Jean Cocteau's The infernal machine / Irene Eynat-Confino -- Pierre Menard in cyberspace : the Internet as intertext / John Pennington -- Re-membering : time and myth in Kleinzeit and The Medusa frequency / Peter Malekin. |
| Local note | Joyner-See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | The meeting was held in March, 1994. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Schlobin copy Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005 |
| LCCN | 95039493 |
| ISBN | 0313297258 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780313297250 (hardcover : alk. paper) |