The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 49
The Celebration of the Fantastic reaffirms the wide range and validity of the subject, treatment, and approach that the fantastic demands. Twenty-five essays, selected from among the more than 230 presented at the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the IAFA, consider writers as diverse as Stephen King, Doris Lessing, Rudyard Kipling, Loren Eiseley, Mary Stewart, Bernard Malamud, Orson Scott Card, Toni Morrison, Henry James, and Ray Bradbury as well as television personalities, film directors,...
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The Celebration of the Fantastic reaffirms the wide range and validity of the subject, treatment, and approach that the fantastic demands. Twenty-five essays, selected from among the more than 230 presented at the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the IAFA, consider writers as diverse as Stephen King, Doris Lessing, Rudyard Kipling, Loren Eiseley, Mary Stewart, Bernard Malamud, Orson Scott Card, Toni Morrison, Henry James, and Ray Bradbury as well as television personalities, film directors, and German and Hungarian visual artists. Also included are essays on science fiction writers Robert Silverberg, Joe Haldeman, and Greg Bear. Some of the more provocative work is on "Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure," "The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact," "Virtual Space and Its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television," "The Fantastic in German Democratic Republic Literature," "Csontvary: The Painter of the Sun's Path," and "The Shaman in Modern Fantasy." The 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.
IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction. Celebrating the Fantastic: This "Enormous and Seductive Subject"11Theory7Victoria and Modern Fantasy: Some Contrasts9The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact23Pagan Survival: Why the Shaman in Modern Fantasy?39Some Thoughts on Modernism and Science Fiction (Suggested by Robert Silverberg's Downward To the Earth)49Godmaking in the Heartland: The Backgrounds of Orson Scott Card's American Fantasy612Myth and Legend71"What Dreams May Come?": Relativity of Perception in Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into Hell73Kipling's Myth of Making: Creation and Contradiction in Puck of Pook's Hill81Mithraic Aspects of Merlin in Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave91Dolorous Strokes, or, Balin at the Bat: Malamud, Malory, and Chretien103Autobiography as Science Fiction: The Strange Case of Loren Eiseley1133The Supernatural121The Fifth Child: Lessing's Subversion of the Pastoral123The Ghost and the Self: The Supernatural Fiction of Henry James133Toni Morrison's Beloved: Rememory, History, and the Fantastic1414Visual Arts: Painting, Film, and Television149Csontvary, the Painter of the "Sun's Path"151Eros and Thanatos: The Art of Alfred Kubin on the Edge of the Other Side165Fantasy According to "Mister Roger's Neighborhood" and In the Night Kitchen183Virtual Space and its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television: Tron, "Max Headroom," and WarGames191Giving the Devil More Than His Due: The Witches of Eastwick as Fiction and Film205The Monomyth in Time Travel Films2115Science Fiction219Astronauts, Angels, and Time Machines: The Fantastic in Recent German Democratic Republic Literature221Legitimate Sequels: Character Structures and The Subject in Greg Bear's Sequel Novels237Joe Haldeman: Cyberpunk Before Cyberpunk Was Cool?2516Fantasy and Horror259Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure in Monique Wittig's Les Guerilleres261Art Versus Madness in Stephen King's Misery271Homage to Melville: Ray Bradbury and the Nineteenth-Century American Romance279Select Bibliography on the Fantastic291Index295About the Editors and Contributors303
