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The dark fantastic : selected essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
- Title
- The dark fantastic : selected essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / edited by C.W. Sullivan III.
- Author
- International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (9th : 1988 : Fort Lauderdale Airport Hilton)
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sullivan, Charles Wm. (Charles William), 1944-
- Description
- xv, 217 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 0193-6875 ; no. 71
- Uniform Title
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 71.
- Subject
- Fantasy literature > History and criticism > Congresses
- Horror tales > History and criticism > Congresses
- Fantastic, The, in art > Congresses
- Fantastic, The, in art
- Fantasy literature
- Horror tales
- Fantastische Literatur
- Kongress
- Das Fantastische
- Künste
- Fantasy literature > History and criticism
- Fantastic, The, in the arts > Congresses
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Selected papers from the conference held 1988 in Florida at the Fort Lauderdale Airport Hilton.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I. The Dark Self: -- "Closer than an eye": the interconnections of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll aqnd Mr. Hyde / Colin N. Manlove -- Rubén Darío's short stories: autobiography, fantasy and the fantastic / Maria A. Salgado -- Hoffmann's fantastic sandman / Allienne Becker -- Horacio Kalibang o los autómatas: a nineteenth-century view of artificial beings / Nancy M. Kason -- Genetic experimentation: mad scientists and the beast / Faye Ringel -- Unholy circle: a Jungian reading of Dracula / Joseph Andriano -- Humankind cannot bear very much reality: illusion and self-deception in the fiction of Peter S. Beagle / Richard West -- Part II. Mainstream Dark: -- "Turning that corner": the identity crisis in Paradise lost, Book I / Jeannette Hume Lutton -- Brood of Mary: Brian Aldiss, Frankenstein, and science fiction / Nicholas Ruddick -- Native sons: regionalism in Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen King / Tony Magistrale -- H.C. Andersen and George MacDonald: the perilous flight of fantastic opposites / Glenn Edward Sadler -- "Utopia by innuendo": the dialogue between fantasy and utopia in Doris Lessing's Marriages between zones three, four, and five / Carol Franko -- Part III. The Dark Arts: -- Betty Edwards's soft satire / Dorothy Joiner -- Theater as informer to the future in the works of Harlan Ellison / Sue Hart -- Rites of passage in contemporary vampire films / Sharon Russell and James Backes -- "The Mother should an harlot been": revisionist Mariology in two photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin / Roger J. Mesley -- Part IV. Humor in the Dark: -- Horrific humor: the use of comic structure and humor in Aliens / Eric P. Shaffer and Patrick D. Murphy -- Kurt Vonnegut: the once and future satirist / Donald E. Morse -- Part V. Theory: -- Postmodernism in popular literary fantasy / Kathryn Hume -- Fantastic tropes in The Folk of the air / Don Riggs -- Genres of desire: a prologue to a theory of science fiction / Leo Daugherty.
- ISBN
- 0313294771
- 9780313294778
- LCCN
- 96025015
- OCLC
- ocm34984138
- 34984138
- SCSB-2107953
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library