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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