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Trajectories of the Fantastic Michael Morrison

Trajectories of the Fantastic By Michael Morrison

Trajectories of the Fantastic by Michael Morrison

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The essays in this volume examine elements of the fantastic in a variety of media. In an accessible manner, the contributors present fresh approaches to examining the elements of the fantastic in literature, film, music, and popular culture.

Trajectories of the Fantastic Summary

Trajectories of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts by Michael Morrison

The essays in this volume examine elements of the fantastic in a variety of media. From the fiction of Toni Morrison, Stephen King, and Chinua Achebe, to the rock songs of David Bowie, the fantastic is seen as adaptable to any art form. In an accessible manner, the contributors present fresh approaches to examining the elements of the fantastic in literature, film, music, and popular culture. The collection features an essay by Ursula K. Le Guin.

About Michael Morrison

MICHAEL A. MORRISON is a David Ross Boyd Professor of Physics and English at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He has published extensively in both physics and the criticism of horror, film, and science fiction. Recent publications include several papers in The Physical Review and Journal of Physics, the textbook, Understanding Quantum Physics: A User's Manual (1990), and A Dark Night's Dreaming: Understanding Contemporary American Horror Fiction (1996), coedited with Tony Magistrale.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Kingdom of the Fantastic Changing Kingdoms by Ursula K. Le Guin Myth and Gender in SF and the Gothic No Paradise to Be Lost: Deconstructing the Myth of Domestic Affection in [Mary] Shelley's Frankenstein by Rosemary Hathaway Using the Fantastic to Disrupt the Domestic: An Examination of Marriage and Family in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Wise Children by Anna Katsavos Androgyny and Difference in SF by Brian Attebery Androgynous Architecture: Fantasies of Genre-Bending in the British Gothic Novel by Tanya Gardiner-Scott Fantasy, Genre, and the Mainstream The Role of the Fantastic in African Narratives: From Sundiata to Things Fall Apart by William E. Mallory Behemyth Evolving: Whale/Ape/Rocket by Joseph Andriano Apocalyptic Grotesque: The Day of the Locust by Catherine Merrill Unraveling the Mystery of Toni Morrison's Beloved by Beverly Skinner King as Classic: Excellence, Relevance, Endurance by Edwin F. Casebeer The Seductive Doom in Young Adult Fantasy by Greer Watson Fantastic Rock The Moorcock/Hawkwind Connection: A Rock SF Multiverse by Michel Delville Future Legends: David Bowie and Science Fiction by Maureen King Cinema Fantastique I: Fantasy in Representation and Critique Architecture as Duality and Fantasy: Mise en Scene and Boundaries in Tim Burton's Films by Leonard G. Heldreth Beauty in the Beast: Technological Reanimation in the Contemporary Horror Film by Mark J. Charney Screening Desire: Posthuman Couplings in Atom Egoyan's Speaking Parts and David Cronenberg's Videodrome by Rob Latham Cinema Fantastique I: Twice Told Tales A Few Remarks about a Couple of Things: Hawkes and Carpenter Reconfigure Campbell by Michael A. Morrison Version/Inversion: Paranoia in Two Cases of Bodysnatching by Michael Collins Greek Gifts: Vision and Revision in the Two Nights of the Living Dead by Mary Pharr Index About the Contributors

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NPB9780313296468
9780313296468
0313296464
Trajectories of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts by Michael Morrison
Michael Morrison
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
1997-10-28
248
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