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- Book Title
- The Shape of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Seventh
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- ISBN-10
- 0313261989
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- Adult & Further Education
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- 9780313261985
- Publication Year
- 1990
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Shape of the Fantastic : Selected Essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
- Item Length
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- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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- 6.1in
- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
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Grotesques, angels, Beast-Man, and the Medusa are among the marvelous cast of characters analyzed in this volume. Originally presented at the 7th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts held in 1986, these essays are stimulating responses by scholars to a range of creative works by Mark Strand, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kafka, Tolkein, Henry James, Julio Cortazar, Sherwood Anderson, Ursula Le Guin, I.B. Singer, Joyce, and others. Examining both mainstream and fantasy literature from many nations, the authors zero-in on the myriad shapes of the fantastic and study the world of SF and film. Five sections treat the fantastic from various enlightening perspectives and seven figures illustrate the essays' provocative theses. In Part I, Discovery and Interpretation, five authors sleuth out surprising elements of fantasy in poetry, short fiction, and a neo-Romantic fairy tale. Also in Part I, an inquiry is made of fantasy in the post-modernist movement. The Inexplicable Reality of Part II refers to deaths that are anything but terminal and four essays chronicle fantastic occurrences whose scientific rationale is tenuous at best. The fifth article traces the elusiveness of fantasy in a number of authors and works. Beast-Man, angels, the Medusa, and other Marvelous Beings are the subject of six essays in Part III. In Part IV, Fantasy in Symbiosis with other Forms, six essays consider the combination of fantasy with murder mystery, with taoism, with the symbolism of the tarot, with Freudian dreams, and with other genres. In the final section, From Fantasy to Science Fiction: Critical Considerations, essays address fantasy and Science Fiction in film, present a discussion between 2 critics of science fiction, and view the history and development of the contemporary SF novel. Series Editor Marshall B. Tymn's selected bibliography of criticism on the fantastic supplements the bibliographies that follow each essay and completes this remarkable work: fascinating reading for generalists; a necessity for students and scholars, aestheticians and critics of the fantasy and SF genres in literature, film, and art.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0313261989
ISBN-13
9780313261985
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Shape of the Fantastic : Selected Essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
284 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pn56
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"I liked, for the most part, THE SHAPE OF THE FANTASTIC. There is research and thought of the highest order." True Review, "...the general level of scholarship is high, and the collection presents a good picture of the state of academic criticism of fantasy when the conference was held in 1986." SFRA Newsletter, "Scholarly essays comprising this volume were selected from an international conference on the theme of the "Fantastic in the Arts': the result is a varied collection which examines different genres for elements of the fantastic and their characterization and construction. Articles offer some wonderful in-depth analyses of the effects and creation of fantasy settings and characters, offering connections which mingle various genre elements and literary issues with psychological insights and critical assessments. Theories and roles of fantasy in writing, specific writers' achievements (Tolkien, Le Guin and James, among others), and gender and other issues in fantasy works make for a diversity of themes, approaches, and critical forms. The result will appeal to literary audiences with a prior interest in and familiarity with science fiction and fantasy efforts across a broad spectrum of time and genres." The Midwest Book Review, "Scholarly essays comprising this volume were selected elected from an international conference on the theme of the "Fantastic in the Arts': the result is a varied collection which examines different genres for elements of the fantastic and their characterization and construction. Articles offer some wonderful in-depth analyses of the effects and creation of fantasy settings and characters, offering connections which mingle various genre elements and literary issues with psychological insights and critical assessments. Theories and roles of fantasy in writing, specific writers' achievements (Tolkien, Le Guin and James, among others), and gender and other issues in fantasy works make for a diversity of themes, approaches, and critical forms. The result will appeal to literary audiences with a prior interest in and familiarity with science fiction and fantasy efforts across a broad spectrum of time and genres." The Midwest Book Review
Table of Content
Discovery and Interpretation The Country Nobody Visits: Varieties of Fantasy in Strand's Poetry Fantasy as Criticism in Forster's Short Fiction Tolkien, Crowley, and Postmodernism The Fantastic Through "The Custom-House": Hawthorne's American Romance Kafka's "A Country Doctor" as Neo-Romantic Fairy Tale Inexplicable Reality The Elusiveness of Fantasy Henry James's "Maud-Evelyn": Ménage a Trois Fantastique Todorov's Pure Fantastic in a Story by Julio Cortazar Fantasmagoria and Optics in Théophile Gautier's "Arria Marcella" The Fantastic Stories in Las fuerzas Extrañas by Leopoldo Lugones Marvelous Beings The Ambiguous Animal: Evolution of the Beast-Man in Scientific Creation Myths Gender Issues in American Angels Structures of Exchange in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "L'Intersigne" Medusa and the Romantic Concept of Beauty Two Practitioners of the Grotesque: Sherwood Anderson and Isaac Bashevis Singer Gautier's Spirite: Beyond the Shadow of the Idea Fantasy in Symbiosis with Other Forms Miracles and Murder: Raymond Chandler's Fantastic Stories Taoism in the Fantasies of Ursula K. Le Guin Joyce, Yeats, Tarot, and the Structure of Dubliners Exegeses on Stand on Zanzibar's Digressions into Genesis Dream of Africa: The Function of Dream in Kateb Yacine's Nedjma Elizabeth Perry Murell The Integrated Alien: Ritual Magic in the Fiction of Dion Fortune From Fantasy to Science Fiction: Critical Considerations What Should a SF Novel Be About The Respone of Wonder: Science Fiction and Literary Theory The Insistence of Fantasy in Contemporary Science Fiction Film A Selected Bibliography of Criticism on the Fantastic Index
Copyright Date
1990
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy, General
Lccn
89-011807
Dewey Decimal
809/.915
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
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