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": Menage a Trois Fantastique Todorov's Pure Fantastic in a Story by Julio Cortazar Fantasmagoria and Optics in Theophile Gautier's "Arria Marcella" The Fantastic Stories in Las fuerzas Extranas 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
OLENA H. SACIUK born in the Ukraine, received her Ph.D., in comparative literature, from the University of Illinois at Urbana. She is a professor of literature and rhetoric at Inter American University of Puerto Rico. She has presented numerous papers on American, Latin American, and Ukrainian literatures, and also enjoys giving workshops on heuristics in rhetoric. Aside from articles, this is a second book that she has edited. Her composition textbook, Bridges to Writing, is forthcoming from Inter American University Press. Lately, she has tried to combine her interest in science fiction with the study of the three national literatures.
"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
.,."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 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
?...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
?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
"I liked, for the most part, THE SHAPE OF THE FANTASTIC. There is
research and thought of the highest order."-True Review
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