State of the fantastic : studies in the theory and practice of fantastic literature and film : selected essays from the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, 1990 / edited by Nicholas Ruddick.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Ruddick, Nicholas, 1952-

Conference Name:

International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (11th : 1990 : Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)

Series:

Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 50.

Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 0193-6875 ; no. 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Fantasy literature.

Fantasy in mass media--Congresses.

Fantasy in mass media.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 210 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1992.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313278539

OCLC:

25131496