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George Edgar Slusser - Bridges to fantasy

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Thirteen original essays written specifically for the second Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held February 2324, 1980, at the University of California, Riverside. These essays demonstrate the variety of fantasy forms and their pervasiveness throughout the ages and will stimulate further study of this complex and elusive mode. The essaysby Harold Bloom, writer and DeVane Professor of the Humanities at Yale University; Larry McCaffery, Assistant Professor of English at San Diego State University; Marta E. S?nchez, Instructor of English at the University of California, San Diego; Arlen J. Hansen, Professor of English at the University of the Pacific, Stockton; David Clayton, Instructor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego; Robert Sale, writer and Professor of English at the University of Washington; G. Richard Thompson, Professor of English at Purdue University, West Lafayette; Robert A. Collins, Coordinator of the annual Swann Conference on the Fantastic and Instructor at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton; John Gerlach, Associate Professor of English at Cleveland State University; David Ketterer, writer and Professor of English at Concordia University, Montreal; George R. Guffey, Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles; Jack P. Rawlins, Associate Professor of English at California State University, Chico; and Gary Kern, writer and translator of early Soviet literatureexamine fantasy on many levels of interest: as an element of human thought, as a constant factor in the social and intellectual environment, and as a generator of form in art and literature.

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title The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton Alternatives author - photo 1

title:The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton Alternatives
author:Slusser, George Edgar.
publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin:0809310430
print isbn13:9780809310432
ebook isbn13:9780585186542
language:English
subjectScience fiction, American.
publication date:1982
lcc:PS3553.L46S3eb
ddc:813/.54
subject:Science fiction, American.
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ALTERNATIVES is a series under the general editorship
of Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander
which has been established to serve the growing critical audi
ence of science fiction, fantastic fiction, and speculative fiction
.
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Bridges to Fantasy
Edited by
George E. Slusser
Eric S. Rabkin
and
Robert Scholes
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright 1982 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Edited by Karen S. Craig
Designed by Quentin Fiore
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Bridges to fantasy.
"Written specifically for the Second Eaton Conference on Science Fiction
and Fantasy, held February 2324, 1980, at the University of California,
Riverside"Introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Fantastic literatureCongresses. I. Slusser, George Edgar. II. Rabkin,
Eric S. III. Scholes, Robert E. IV. Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and
Fantasy Literature (2nd : 1980 : University of California, Riverside)
PN56.F34B7 809.3'876 81-13548
ISBN 0-8093-1043-0 AACR2
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Contents
Introduction
George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes
vii
Clinamen: Towards a Theory of Fantasy
Harold Bloom
1
Form, Formula, and Fantasy: Generative Structures in Contemporary Fiction
Larry McCaffery
21
A View from Inside the Fishbowl: Julio Cortzar's "Axolotl"
Marta E. Snchez
38
The Meeting of Parallel Lines: Science, Fiction, and Science Fiction
Arlen J. Hansen
51
On Realistic and Fantastic Discourse
David Clayton
59
The Audience in Children's Literature
Roger Sale
78
The Apparition of This World: Transcendentalism and the American "Ghost" Story
G. R. Thompson
90

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Fantasy and "Forestructures": The Effect of Philosophical Climate upon Perceptions of the Fantastic
Robert A. Collins
108
The Logic of Wings: Garca Mrquez, Todorov, and the Endless Resources of Fantasy
John Gerlach
121
Power Fantasy in the "Science Fiction" of Mark Twain
David Ketterer
130
The Unconscious, Fantasy, and Science Fiction: Transformations in Bradbury's Martian Chronicles and Lem's Solaris
George R. Guffey
142
Confronting the Alien: Fantasy and Antifantasy in Science Fiction Film and Literature
Jack P. Rawlins
160
The Search for Fantasy: From Primitive Man to Pornography
Gary Kern
175
Notes
197
Biographical Notes
219
Index
221

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Introduction
Toward a Theory of Fantasy: Essays from the Eaton Conference
One of the most significant aspects of modern culture is the resurgence of interest in fantasy on all levelsas element of human thought, as constant factor in man's social and intellectual environment, as generator of form in art and literature. In all these areas the focus on fantasy as category of investigation promises to lead to important modifications in accepted critical patterns, indeed to reevaluation of the role and purpose of artistic activity itself.
The central problem in the study of fantasy, then, is not merely to define another genre, but to circumscribe the tools and methods needed to approach works of art from a new perspective. Each of the essays presented in this volume seeks to provide a coherent theoretical model for such an approach. The essays fall, roughly, into three groupsstructures, contexts, and themeswhich provide general "angles of definition." These are only starting points, however, and each study uses its particular angle not to confine a given text or problem, but rather to open it out. The goal, in each case, is to investigate particular ways in which these categories ultimately interact to produce a work of fantasy. By crisscrossing the literary and artistic landscape, then, from multiple directions, this set of essays provides a beginning to the theoretical study of a complex and elusive mode.
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