C. W. Iii Sullivan, Unknown

The Dark Fantastic

Selected Essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Herausgeber: Sullivan, C. W. Iii

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Dark Self, takes its direction from Colin Manlove's essay on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a classic examination of the dark side of the self. Section two, Mainstream Dark, examines mainstream authors who have used elements of the fantastic in their dark visions. The Dark Arts, section three, examines the ways in which the fine arts deal with the darker elements of the real and the fantastic. The fourth section, Humor in the Dark, looks at comedic elements in film and fiction. The final section features Kathryn Hume's essay Postmodernism in Popular Literary Fantasy and other essays that are a part of the continuing attempt to bring new critical approaches to fantastic literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780313294778
• ISBN-10: 0313294771
• Artikelnr.: 25569914

Autorenporträt

C.W. SULLIVAN III is Professor of English at East Carolina University. His previous books include The Dark Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (1997), and Science Fiction for Young Readers (1993), and Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy (1989), all available from Greenwood Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by C. W. Sullivan III The Dark Self "Closer Than an Eye": The
Interconnectedness of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Colin N.
Manlove Rubén Darío's Short Stories: Autobiography, Fantasy and the
Fantastic by Maria A. Salgado Hoffmann's Fantastic Sandman by Allienne
Becker Horacio Kalibang o los autómatas: A Nineteenth-Century View of
Artificial Beings by Nancy M. Kason Genetic Experimentation: Mad Scientists
and the Beast by Faye Ringel The Unholy Circle: A Jungian Reading of
Dracula by Joseph Andriano Human-Kind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality:
Illusion and Self-Deception in the Fiction of Peter S. Beagle by Richard
West Mainstream Dark "Turning That Corner": The Identity Crisis in Paradise
Lost, Book I by Jeannette Hume Lutton The Brood of Mary: Brian Aldiss,
Frankenstein, and Science Fiction by Nicholas Ruddick Native Sons;
Regionalism in Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen King by Tony Magistrale H.
C. Anderson and George MacDonald: The Perilous Flight of Fantastic
Opposites by Glenn Edward Sadler "Utopia by Innuendo": The Dialogue Between
Fantasy and Utopia in Doris Lessing's Marriages Between Zones Three, Four,
and Five by Carol Franko The Dark Arts Betty Edwards's Soft Satire by
Dorothy Joiner Theater as Informer to the Future in the Works of Harlan
Ellison by Sue Hart The Rites of Passage in Contemporary Vampire Films by
Sharon Russell and James Backes "The Mother Should an Harlot Been":
Revisionist Mariology in Two Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin by Roger J.
Mesley Humor in the Dark Horrific Humor: The Use of Comic Structure and
Humor in Aliens by Eric P. Shaffer and Patrick D. Murphy Kurt Vonnegut: The
Once and Future Satirist by Donald E. Morse Theory Postmodernism in Popular
Literary Fantasy by Kathryn Hume Fantastic Tropes in The Folk of the Air by
Don Riggs Genres of Desire: A Prologue to a Theory of Science Fiction by
Leo Daugherty Index