• Publication: Modes of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Twelfth International Conference on the Fantastic in the ArtsPublication Record # 22554
• Authors: Robert A. Collins, Robert A. Latham
• Date: 1995-09-00
• ISBN: 0-313-29085-7 [978-0-313-29085-5]
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Pub. Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Pub. Series #: 66
• Pages: xxi+233
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes: Data from Greenwood Press and WorldCat.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 32550299

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Politics (If Any) of Fantasy • essay by Brian Attebery
• 14 • The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow • essay by Joseph Andriano
• 21 • Fantasia for Sewercovers and Drainpipes: T.S. Eliot, Abram Tertz, and the Surreal Quest for Pravda • essay by Jesse T. Airaudi
• 29 • Collage As Critique and Invention in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker • essay by Rob Latham [as by Robert A. Latham]
• 38 • Louis Aragon: The Fantastic in Collage and Poetry • essay by Pierrette Frickey
• 47 • William Gibson and the Death of Cyberpunk • essay by Claire Sponsler
• 56 • Boris Vian and the Literary Grotesque: The Animated Objects • essay by Nicole Buffard-O'Shea
• 64 • Defining the Fantastic Grotesque: Nathanael West's the Dream Life of Balso Snell • essay by Catherine Merrill
• 74 • Pauline Hopkins' of One Blood: Creating an Afrocentric Fantasy for a Black Middle Class Audience • essay by John Gruesser
• 84 • Contemporary Feminist Fantasy in the Scottish Literary Tradition • essay by Margaret Elphinstone
• 93 • The Madwoman in the Matrix: Joanna Russ's the Two of Them and the Psychiatric Postmodern • essay by Deborah Wills
• 100 • The Marriage Metaphor in the Works of Ursula K. Le Guin • essay by Tarya Malkki
• 110 • Fantasies of Sexual Hell: Manuel Puig's Pubis Angelical and Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale • essay by Leonard A. Cheever
• 122 • Woman as Reality-Demarcator in Three Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann • essay by Lee B. Jennings
• 129 • The "Astralis" Poem by Novalis As Creation Myth • essay by Edith Borchardt
• 137 • Shades of the Fantastic: The Forest in Jacques Cazotte's "Aventure Du Pèlerin" and George Sand's La Mare Au Diable • essay by Juliette Gilman
• 143 • Fantasy and Metonymy in the Ancient Near Eastern Imagery of the Sacred Tree • essay by David Castriota
• 155 • Totemic Animals in Some Shakespeare Plays • essay by Frederick M. Burelbach
• 161 • Death in Natures Mortes: Vanitas in French Still Lifes of the Seventeenth Century • essay by Randall Rhodes
• 173 • One Hump Or Two? • essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• 176 • Charles Williams: Occult Fantasies/Occult Fact • essay by Bernadette Lynn Bosky [as by Bernadette Bosky]
• 186 • The Mercy of the Torturer: The Paradox of Compassion in Gene Wolfe's World of the New Sun • essay by Lillian M. Heldreth
• 195 • Twain's the American Claimant and the Figure of Frankenstein: A Reading in Rhetorical Hermeneutics • essay by Scott Michaelsen
• 204 • The Politics of Entropy: Revolution Vs Evolution in George Pal's 1960 Film Version of H. G. Wells's the Time Machine • essay by Donald E. Palumbo
• 212 • Different Shops of Horrors: From Roger Corman's Cult Classic to Frank Oz's Mainstream Musical • essay by Roger Corman