| Description |
xi, 231 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Alternatives
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Alternatives.
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| Note |
"Written specifically for the Second Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy, held February 23-24, 1980, at the University of California, Riverside"--Introd. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Clinamen: towards a theory of fantasy / Harold Bloom -- Form, formula, and fantasy: generative structures in contemporary fiction / Larry McCaffery -- A view from inside the fishbowl: Julio Cortázar's "Axolotl" / Marta E. Sánchez -- Meeting of parallel lines: science, fiction, and science fiction / Arlen J. Hansen -- On realistic and fantastic discourse / David Clayton -- Audience in children's literature / Roger Sale -- Apparition of this world: transcendentalism and the American "ghost" story / G.R. Thompson -- Fantasy and "forestructures": the effect of philosophical climate upon perceptions of the fantastic / Robert A. Collins -- Logic of wings: Garcia Márquez, Todorov, and the endless resources of fantasy / John Gerlach -- Power fantasy in the "science fiction" of Mark Twain / David Ketterer -- Unconscious, fantasy, and science fiction: transformations in Bradbury's Martian chronicles and Lem's Solaris / George R. Guffey -- Confronting the alien: fantasy and antifantasy in science fiction film and literature / Jack P. Rawlins -- Search for fantasy: from primitive man to pornography / Gary Kern. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Fantasy literature -- Congresses.
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Fantasy literature. |
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Littérature fantastique -- Congrès. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Slusser, George Edgar.
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Rabkin, Eric S.
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Scholes, Robert, 1929-2016.
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Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (2nd : 1980 : University of California, Riverside)
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| ISBN |
0809310430 |
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9780809310432 |
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