The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts: Selected Essays from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

by Donald Morse

Overview

From a discussion of the problem of communicating with non-human beings and a review of popular fantastic films to an examination of stage portrayals of Dr. Frankenstein's monster, the essays included reflect and reinfoce the international appeal of the fantastic. Studies on J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Caroll, Carlos Fuentes, Edgar Allen Poe, Jorges Luis Borges, and others show how writers, artists, and directors use the impossible as a way of presenting familiar problems and themes—such as the relation of the past to the future or our attitudes towards death—in a new light. Several essays suggest new or newly refined ways of approaching the fantastic in literature from a critical standpoint, while others focus on the visual and kinetic arts. Taken together, the essays accurately mirror the flux and vitality of the current study of the fantastic in the arts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313255267
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/11/1987
Series:	Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy , #28
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

DONALD E. MORSE is Professor of English and Rhetoric, at Oakland University, Fulbright Lecturer at Kossuth University, Hungary, 1987-1988, and Conference Chair for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Fantastic in World Literature: Theory and Themes
Part II. The Fantastic in World Literature: Individual Authors
Part III. Fantastic Themes, Figures and Techniques in the Arts: Collage, Stage and Film
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Contributors