The Dark Fantastic - Selected Essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: C. Sullivan, C. W. Iii Sullivan, Unknown
• Assisted by: C. W. Iii Sullivan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.1997
• EAN: 9780313294778
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29477-8
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, The arts, Literary studies: general