Celebration of the Fantastic

DONALD E. MORSE is Professor of English and Rhetoric at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He is co-editor (with Csilla Bertha) of More Real Than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts (Greenwood Press, 1991) and editor of The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts (Greenwood, 1987). He has contributed numerous articles on Joyce, Beckett, Auden, Vonnegut, American drama, adult development, and cognitive psychology to various journals.MARSHALL B. TYMN is Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. He is past President of The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, an internationally recognized scholar in science fiction and the fantastic, and he received the Pilgrim Award of the Science Fiction Research Association in 1990. The author of numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the series editor of Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy for Greenwood and The Year's Work in Science Fiction and Fantasy.CSILLA BERTHA is Associate Professor of English and Irish at Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary. Her publications include: two books in Hungary: Yeats the Playwright and English Literature in the 19th and the First Half of the 20th Centuries well as More Real Than Reality (Greenwood, 1991). She has also authored numerous articles in Hungary, Ireland, and the United States on Irish drama, Yeats, J.B. Keane, B. Friel, T. Murphy, the fantastic in Irish literature, and parallels between Irish and Hungarian literature.

• Preface Introduction--Celebrating the Fantastic: This "Enormous and Seductive Subject" by Donald E. Morse Theory Victorian and Modern Fantasy: Some Contrasts by Colin Manlove (The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholar Address of 1989) The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact by H. Bruce Franklin Pagan Survival: Why the Shaman in Modern Fantasy? by Roger C. Schlobin Some Thoughts on Modernism and Science Fiction (Suggested by Robert Silverberg's DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH) by Robert Latham Godmaking in the Heartland: Cultural Texts in the Tales of Alvin Maker by Brian Attebery Myth and Legend "What Dreams May Come?" Relativity of Perception in Doris Lessing's BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL by Peter Malekin Kipling's Myth of Making: Creation and Contradiction in PUCK OF POOK'S HILL by Jack G. Voller Mithraic Aspects of Merlin in Mary Stewart's THE CRYSTAL CAVE by Marilyn Jurich Dolorous Strokes, Or, Balin at the Bat: Malamud, Malory and Chretien by John Kimsey Autobiography as Science Fiction: The Strange Case of Loren Eiseley by Gale E. Christianson The Supernatural THE FIFTH CHILD: Lessing's Subversion of the Pastoral by Ellen Pifer The Ghost and the Self: The Supernatural Fiction of Henry James by Leonard Heldreth Toni Morrison's BELOVED: Rememory, History, and the Fantastic by Gary W. Daily Visual Arts: Painting, Film, and Television CsontVAry: The Painter of the "Sun's Path" by Csilla Bertha Eros and Thanatos: The Art of Alfred Kubin on the Edge of the Other Side by Barbara Alexander-Schaechtelin Fantasy According to MISTER ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD and IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN by C.W. Sullivan III Virtual Space and Its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television: TRON, MAX HEADROOM, and WARGAMES by Judith B. Kerman Giving the Devil More than His Due: THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK as Fiction and Film by Kenneth Jurkiewicz The Monomyth in Time Travel Films by Donald Palumbo Science Fiction Astronauts, Angels, and Time Machines: The Fantastic in German Democratic Republic Literature by Barbara Mabee Legitimate Sequels: Character Structures and the Subject in Greg Bear's Sequel Novels by Len Hatfield Joe Haldeman: Cyberpunk Before Cyberpunk Was Cool? by Joan Gordon Fantasy and Horror Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure in Monique Wittig's LES GUERILLERES by Laurence M. Porter Art Versus Madness in Stephen King's MISERY by Tony Magistrale Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, and Nineteenth-Century American Romance by Steven E. Kagle Bibliography Index