State Of The Fantastic, Vol. 50
This collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains five parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film.\ What all the essays here have in common is that their authors are all aware of the tremendous latent power, for good and...
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This collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains five parts: on fantasists and their work, contemporary fantastic theory and practice, studies in the British and European fantastic, studies in American fantasy and science fiction, and sex and techno-horror in fantastic literature and film. What all the essays here have in common is that their authors are all aware of the tremendous latent power, for good and ill, of the fantastic text. We are given timely reminders of the dangers, as well as the appeal, of elves and how narrators in fantastic fictions take advantage of our desire to be part of a narrative community. We learn how some contemporary fantasists assimilate literary and scientific theory, while others seem in their fiction to require a new sociology to account for it.
PrefaceIntroduction: Learning to Resist the WolfPt. IA Manifesto for Fantasists"Oh God, Here Come the Elves!"3Pt. IIUnreal Rhetorics: Contemporary Fantastic Theory and PracticeFantasy and the Narrative Transaction15Specular SF: Postmodern Allegory29Knowing about Knowing: Paradigms of Knowledge in the Postmodern Fantastic41Im/maculate: Some Instances of Gnostic Science Fiction49The Reproduction of the Body in Space59Pt. IIIRecovering the Numinous: Studies in the British and European FantasticM. G. Lewis and Later Gothic Fiction: The Numinous Dissipated75The Taming of the Screw: Rohmer's Filming of Kleist's "Die Marquise von O..."83Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Fantastic91Caricature, Parody, Satire: Narrative Masks as Subversion of the Picaro in Patrick Suskind's Perfume97Pt. IVFrom the Empire of the Senseless: Studies in American Fantasy and Science FictionReality, Fiction and Wu in The Man in the High Castle107Zelazny's Black: The Sidekick as Second Self115Suicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To...121Getting a Kick out of Chaos: "Fortunate Failure" in Greg Bear's Future Histories133Out of Blue Water: Dream Flight and Narrative Construction in the Novels of Toni Morrison141Dominance and Subversion: The Horizontal Sublime and Erotic Empowerment in the Works of Kathy Acker149Pt. VMachine Nightmares: Sex and Techno-Horror in Fantastic Literature and FilmThe Dawn Patrol: Sex, Technology, and Irony in Farmer and Ballard159The Making of Frankenstein's Monster: Post-Golem, Pre-Robot169Westworld, Futureworld, and the World's Obscenity179The Animal at the Door: Modern Works of Horror and the Natural Animal189Index199About the Editor and Contributors207
