The Celebration of the Fantastic by Csilla Bertha
These essays illustrate the essential theme of the fantastic - the testing of the limits of civilization and the questioning of commonly accepted values and ideas as writers and artists explore the hidden and the repressed.-
Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels
-
The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy
-
Chaos Theory, Asimov's Foundations and Robots, and Herbert's Dune
-
The Transcendent Adventure
-
Formula Fiction?
-
A Better Country
-
Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy
-
Unearthly Visions
-
The Aesthetics of Ambivalence
-
The Fantastic Vampire
-
The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing
-
State of the Fantastic
-
Clockwork Worlds
-
Aspects of Fantasy
-
Transformations of Language in Modern Dystopias
-
Space and Beyond
-
Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing
-
The Reclamation of a Queen
-
Contours of the Fantastic
-
Transrealist Fiction
-
Eros in the Mind's Eye
-
Ultimate Island
-
Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic
-
Science Fiction for Young Readers
-
The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts
-
Robert Silverberg's Many Trapdoors
-
Reflections on the Fantastic
-
Visions of the Fantastic
-
The Mechanical God
-
Strange Constellations
-
Flashes of the Fantastic
-
Great Themes of Science Fiction
-
Death and the Serpent
-
Comic Tones in Science Fiction
-
Spectrum of the Fantastic
-
Young Adult Science Fiction
-
Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War
-
More Real Than Reality
-
Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture
-
Robbe-Grillet and the Fantastic
-
Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction
-
Staging the Impossible
-
Phoenix From the Ashes
-
The Poetic Fantastic
-
When World Views Collide
-
A Literary Symbiosis
-
Forms of the Fantastic
-
Science Fiction Fandom
-
Trajectories 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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780313278143 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313278148 |
| Title | The Celebration of the Fantastic |
| Author | Csilla Bertha |
| Series | Contributions To The Study Of Science Fiction And Fantasy Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 1992-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |