Dark Fantastic

Selected Essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

This anthology of essays focuses on the darker side of the human condition as it appears in fantastic literature. The first section of the book, The Dark Self, takes its direction from Colin Manlove's essay on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a classic examination of the dark side of the self. Section two, Mainstream Dark, examines mainstream authors who have used elements of the fantastic in their dark visions. The Dark Arts, section three, examines the ways in which the fine arts deal with the darker elements of the real and the fantastic. The fourth section, Humor in the Dark, looks at comedic elements in film and fiction. The final section features Kathryn Hume's essay Postmodernism in Popular Literary Fantasy and other essays that are a part of the continuing attempt to bring new critical approaches to fantastic literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:1997-02-11
Mått:161 x 240 x 17 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313294778

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C. W. SULLIVAN III is Professor of English at East Carolina University and a member of the Welsh Academy. He is author of Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy (Greenwood, 1989). He is also editor of The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays, Science Fiction for Young Readers (Greenwood, 1993), and As Tomorrow Becomes Today, and coeditor of Herbal and Magical Medicine: Traditional Healing Today. His articles on science fiction, fantasy, mythology, and folklore have been published in a variety of anthologies and journals. Sullivan is past President of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and the editor of the Children's Folklore Review.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction by C. W. Sullivan III The Dark Self "Closer Than an Eye": The Interconnectedness of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Colin N. Manlove Ruben Dario's Short Stories: Autobiography, Fantasy and the Fantastic by Maria A. Salgado Hoffmann's Fantastic Sandman by Allienne Becker Horacio Kalibang o los automatas: A Nineteenth-Century View of Artificial Beings by Nancy M. Kason Genetic Experimentation: Mad Scientists and the Beast by Faye Ringel The Unholy Circle: A Jungian Reading of Dracula by Joseph Andriano Human-Kind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality: Illusion and Self-Deception in the Fiction of Peter S. Beagle by Richard West Mainstream Dark "Turning That Corner": The Identity Crisis in Paradise Lost, Book I by Jeannette Hume Lutton The Brood of Mary: Brian Aldiss, Frankenstein, and Science Fiction by Nicholas Ruddick Native Sons; Regionalism in Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen King by Tony Magistrale H. C. Anderson and George MacDonald: The Perilous Flight of Fantastic Opposites by Glenn Edward Sadler "Utopia by Innuendo": The Dialogue Between Fantasy and Utopia in Doris Lessing's Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five by Carol Franko The Dark Arts Betty Edwards's Soft Satire by Dorothy Joiner Theater as Informer to the Future in the Works of Harlan Ellison by Sue Hart The Rites of Passage in Contemporary Vampire Films by Sharon Russell and James Backes "The Mother Should an Harlot Been": Revisionist Mariology in Two Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin by Roger J. Mesley Humor in the Dark Horrific Humor: The Use of Comic Structure and Humor in Aliens by Eric P. Shaffer and Patrick D. Murphy Kurt Vonnegut: The Once and Future Satirist by Donald E. Morse Theory Postmodernism in Popular Literary Fantasy by Kathryn Hume Fantastic Tropes in The Folk of the Air by Don Riggs Genres of Desire: A Prologue to a Theory of Science Fiction by Leo Daugherty Index