| Description |
1 online resource (297 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Lettre
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Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Belief, potentiality, and the supernatural : mapping the fantastic / Daniel Scott -- Fantasy without fantasy : politics, genre, and media in the fiction of M. John Harrison / Fred Botting -- Is the fantastic really fantastic? / Irina Golovacheva -- Insurgent utopias : how to recognize the knock at the door / Larissa Lai -- Crossing impossible boundaries? Fantastic narrative and ideology / Alfons Gregori -- Questioning mononormativity : a future of fantastic scholarship in liminal identities / Brandy Eileen Allatt -- Organic fantasy and the alien archetype in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon / Johanna Pundt -- Latino/a magical realism and American superhero fiction as constitutive agents in the negotiation of Dominican-American identity in Junot Diaz' The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Michael Giebel -- Flights of fancy, secondary worlds and blank slates : relations between the fantastic and the real / Sarah Faber -- Creepypastas : how counterterrorist fantasies (re- )create horror traditions for today's digital communities / Atalie Gerhard -- "All the better to eat you with" : the eroticization of the werewolf and the rise of monster porn in the digital age / Alexandra Leonzini. |
| Summary |
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction. |
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Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
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Popular literature. |
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English-speaking countries. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Literary criticism.
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| Added Author |
Batzke, Ina, editor.
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Erbacher, Eric, editor.
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Hess, Linda M., editor.
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Lenhardt, Corinna, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Exploring the fantastic. Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2018] 9783837640274 (OCoLC)1031426856 |
| ISBN |
9783839440278 (electronic book) |
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3839440270 (electronic book) |
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9783837640274 |
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3837640272 |
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9783837640274 (paperback) |
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3837640272 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9783837640274 |
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