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The Celebration of the Fantastic Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
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Donald E. Morse, Marshall B. Tymn, Csilla Bertha
Book Code: MFO/
ISBN: 0-313-27814-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27814-3
328 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/1992
List Price: $126.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • It is rare and satisfying to have fantasy in literature and the arts given such intelligent treatment. There is a wealth of information here for the serious reader.
    —Magic Realism
Description: The Celebration of the Fantastic reaffirms the wide range and validity of the subject, treatment, and approach that the fantastic demands. Twenty-five essays, selected from among the more than 230 presented at the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the IAFA, consider writers as diverse as Stephen King, Doris Lessing, Rudyard Kipling, Loren Eiseley, Mary Stewart, Bernard Malamud, Orson Scott Card, Toni Morrison, Henry James, and Ray Bradbury as well as television personalities, film directors, and German and Hungarian visual artists. Also included are essays on science fiction writers Robert Silverberg, Joe Haldeman, and Greg Bear. Some of the more provocative work is on "Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure," "The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact," "Virtual Space and Its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television," "The Fantastic in German Democratic Republic Literature," "Csontváry: The Painter of the Sun's Path," and "The Shaman in Modern Fantasy." The essays illustrate the essential theme of the fantastic: the testing of the limits of civilization and the questioning of commonly accepted values and ideas as writers and artists explore the hidden and the repressed.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction--Celebrating the Fantastic: This "Enormous and Seductive Subject" by Donald E. Morse
  • Theory
  • Victorian and Modern Fantasy: Some Contrasts by Colin Manlove (The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholar Address of 1989)
  • The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact by H. Bruce Franklin
  • Pagan Survival: Why the Shaman in Modern Fantasy? by Roger C. Schlobin
  • Some Thoughts on Modernism and Science Fiction (Suggested by Robert Silverberg's DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH) by Robert Latham
  • Godmaking in the Heartland: Cultural Texts in the Tales of Alvin Maker by Brian Attebery
  • Myth and Legend
  • "What Dreams May Come?" Relativity of Perception in Doris Lessing's BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL by Peter Malekin
  • Kipling's Myth of Making: Creation and Contradiction in PUCK OF POOK'S HILL by Jack G. Voller
  • Mithraic Aspects of Merlin in Mary Stewart's THE CRYSTAL CAVE by Marilyn Jurich
  • Dolorous Strokes, Or, Balin at the Bat: Malamud, Malory and Chretien by John Kimsey
  • Autobiography as Science Fiction: The Strange Case of Loren Eiseley by Gale E. Christianson
  • The Supernatural
  • THE FIFTH CHILD: Lessing's Subversion of the Pastoral by Ellen Pifer
  • The Ghost and the Self: The Supernatural Fiction of Henry James by Leonard Heldreth
  • Toni Morrison's BELOVED: Rememory, History, and the Fantastic by Gary W. Daily
  • Visual Arts: Painting, Film, and Television
  • Csontváry: The Painter of the "Sun's Path" by Csilla Bertha
  • Eros and Thanatos: The Art of Alfred Kubin on the Edge of the Other Side by Barbara Alexander-Schaechtelin
  • Fantasy According to MISTER ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD and IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN by C.W. Sullivan III
  • Virtual Space and Its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television: TRON, MAX HEADROOM, and WARGAMES by Judith B. Kerman
  • Giving the Devil More than His Due: THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK as Fiction and Film by Kenneth Jurkiewicz
  • The Monomyth in Time Travel Films by Donald Palumbo
  • Science Fiction
  • Astronauts, Angels, and Time Machines: The Fantastic in German Democratic Republic Literature by Barbara Mabee
  • Legitimate Sequels: Character Structures and the Subject in Greg Bear's Sequel Novels by Len Hatfield
  • Joe Haldeman: Cyberpunk Before Cyberpunk Was Cool? by Joan Gordon
  • Fantasy and Horror
  • Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure in Monique Wittig's LES GUERILLERES by Laurence M. Porter
  • Art Versus Madness in Stephen King's MISERY by Tony Magistrale
  • Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, and Nineteenth-Century American Romance by Steven E. Kagle
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 91-37133
LCC Class: PR830
Dewey Class: 823
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