The Dark Fantastic

C W Sullivan III

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 71
• 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 D... Lees meer

The Company of Camelot

Charlott Spivack, Roberta L Staples

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 61
• This book deals with the eight major figures in the Arthurian legends and how they have been individually represented in literature from its beginning... Lees meer

The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature

M Keith Booker

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 58
• While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society... Lees meer

State of the Fantastic

Nicholas Ruddick

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy
• This collection of twenty essays originally presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts contains five parts: on fa... Lees meer

Transrealist Fiction

Damien Broderick

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 90
• Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originate... Lees meer

Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy

C W Sullivan III

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 35
• This study provides a fascinating look at the various ways in which 20th-century fantasy writers have used Welsh Celtic mythology and folklore in thei... Lees meer

The Reclamation of a Queen

Barbara A Gordon Wise

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy
• The Reclamation of a Queen seeks new approaches to Guinevere's shadowed, negative image in the Arthurian legends. There the Queen was generally percei... Lees meer

Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic

David Oakes

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 92
• The writers of Gothic literature reflect in their works the concerns and fears of the times in which they were created. These fears, in turn, destabil... Lees meer

I Am the Other

Maria A Ferreira

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 85
• The idea of human cloning has fascinated writers and philosophers for centuries and has been dramatized in myths and fiction. This volume traces these... Lees meer

The Dark Descent

Tony Magistrale

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 48
• Surely one of America's most popular novelists, Stephen King has only recently begun to receive serious attention from scholars and literary critics. ... Lees meer

Science Fiction and the Theatre

Ralph Willingham

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Willingham presents a historical survey of science fiction drama and focusses particularly on the history of attempts to stage science fiction. Little... Lees meer

Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels

Marguerite Quintelli-Neary

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 76
• During the Irish Renaissance, authors such as William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory resurrected Irish folklore in their literary and dramatic works, t... Lees meer

Odd Genre

John J Pierce

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 60
• This book provides a detailed study of the relationship between science fiction and other genres. After discussing the problems inherent in classifyin... Lees meer

Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 97
• Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with disdain and h... Lees meer

Trajectories of the Fantastic

Michael Morrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 70
• 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,... Lees meer

Flashes of the Fantastic

David Ketterer

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 94
• The 19th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts was focused on the centennial of the initial publication of H. G. Wells's The War of th... Lees meer

The Celebration of the Fantastic

Csilla Bertha, Donald Morse, Marshall B Tymn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 49
• The Celebration of the Fantastic reaffirms the wide range and validity of the subject, treatment, and approach that the fantastic demands. Twenty-five... Lees meer

Apertures

Brian Griffin, David Wingrove

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 8
• The authors believe transitional science fiction writer and critic Brian Aldiss represents the evolutionary leap from the older pulp/adventure science... Lees meer

Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War

M Keith Booker

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 95
• The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films ... Lees meer

Young Adult Science Fiction

C W Sullivan III

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 79
• At the close of the nineteenth century, American youths developed a growing interest in electricity and its applications, machines, and gadgetry. When... Lees meer

Lord Dunsany

S T Joshi

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 64
• The Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) has suffered a regrettable decline in critical esteem. Although one of the most popular and critically accla... Lees meer

The Road to Castle Mount

Edgar L Chapman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy | nr. 82
• One of the most prolific, honored, and widely read science fiction writers, Robert Silverberg has forged a professional career that began in the 1950s... Lees meer

The Aesthetics of Ambivalence

Brooks Landon

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Brooks Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost becom... Lees meer

Ultimate Island

Nicholas Ruddick

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy
• This study confronts current influential theories that science fiction is either an American phenomenon or an international one. The study rejects the... Lees meer