• Publication: The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the ArtsPublication Record # 342134
• Authors: Csilla Bertha, Donald E. Morse, Marshall B. Tymn
• Date: 1992-09-30
• ISBN: 0-313-27814-8 [978-0-313-27814-3]
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Pub. Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Pub. Series #: 49
• Pages: xv+309
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes: Data from Greenwood Press and WorldCat, OCLC.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 24629540

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction. Celebrating the Fantastic: This "Enormous and Seductive Subject" • essay by Donald E. Morse
• 9 • Victorian and Modern Fantasy: Some Contrasts • essay by Colin Manlove [as by Colin N. Manlove]
• 23 • The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact • essay by H. Bruce Franklin
• 39 • Pagan Survival: Why the Shaman in Modern Fantasy? • essay by Roger C. Schlobin
• 49 • Some Thoughts on Modernism and Science Fiction (Suggested by Robert Silverberg's Downard to the Earth) • essay by Rob Latham [as by Robert A. Latham]
• 61 • Godmaking in the Heartland: The Backgrounds of Orson Scott Card's American Fantasy • essay by Brian Attebery
• 73 • "What Dreams May Come?": Relativity of Perception in Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent Into Hell • essay by Peter Malekin
• 81 • Kipling's Myth of Making: Creation and Contradiction in Puck of Pook's Hill • essay by Jack G. Voller
• 91 • Mithraic Aspects of Merlin in Mary Stewart's the Crystal Cave • essay by Marilyn Jurich
• 103 • Dolorous Stokes, Or Balin at the Bat: Malaud, Malory, and Chretien • essay by John Kimsey
• 113 • Autobiography As Science Fiction: The Strange Case of Loren Eiseley • essay by Gale E. Christianson
• 123 • The Fifth Child: Lessing's Subversion of the Pastoral • essay by Ellen Pifer
• 133 • The Ghost and the Self: The Supernatural Fiction of Henry James • essay by Leonard G. Heldreth [as by Leonard Heldreth]
• 141 • Toni Morrison's Beloved: Rememory, History and the Fantastic • essay by Gary W. Daily
• 151 • Csontváry, the Painter of the "Sun's Path" • essay by Csilla Bertha
• 165 • Eros and Thanatos: The Art of Alfred Kubin on the Edge of the Other Side • essay by Barbara F. Alexander-Schaechtelin
• 183 • Fantasy According to Mister Roger's Neighborhood and In the Night Kitchen Sullivan • essay by C. W. Sullivan, III
• 191 • Virtual Space and Its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television: Tron, "Max Headroom," and Wargames • essay by Judith B. Kerman
• 205 • Giving the Devil More Than His Dues: The Witches of Eastwick As Fiction and Film • essay by Kenneth Jurkiewicz
• 211 • The Monomyth in Time Travel Films • essay by Donald E. Palumbo
• 221 • Astronauts, Angels, and Time Machines: The Fantastic in Recent German Democratic Republic Literature • essay by Barbara Mabee
• 237 • Legitimate Sequels: Character Structures and the Subject in Greg Bear's Sequel Novels • essay by Len Hatfield
• 251 • Joe Haldeman: Cyberpunk Before Cyberpunk Was Cool? • essay by Joan Gordon
• 261 • Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure in Monique Wittig's Les Guerilleres • essay by Laurence M. Porter
• 271 • Art Versus Madness in Stephen King's Misery • essay by Tony Magistrale
• 279 • Homage to Melville: Ray Bradbury and the Nineteenth-Century American Romance • essay by Steven E. Kagle