The Shape of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Seventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
- List Price: $140.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (CT)
- Publish date: 01/01/1990
Description:
This study collects 25 essays on the fantastic as portrayed in literature and visual art. In five sections: "Discovery and Interpretation, " "Inexplicable Reality, " "Marvelous Beings, " "Fantasy in Symbiosis with Other Forms, " and "From Fantasy to Science Fiction: Critical Considerations, " scholars examine fantasy in works by Mark Strand, Hawthorne, Kafka, and Tolkien, among others. Beasts, angels, grotesques, and more are analyzed and a selected bibliography of relevant criticism that complements each essay's bibliography completes the volume.
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