Collision of Realities : Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe.

By:

Schmeink, Lars

Contributor(s):

Böger, Astrid, 1967-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (372 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9783110276725
3110276720
3110276712
9783110276718
9781283857826
1283857820

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Collision of Realities : Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe.DDC classification:

809.3/8766 809.38766

LOC classification:

PN56.F34 C65 2012

Other classification:

EC 6805

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Contents:

Preface; THE FANTASTIC -- THEORY AND HISTORY; The Art and Science of Heterocosmic Creativity; "It's not what you see -- it's how you see what you see." The Fantastic as an Epistemological Concept; The Nightmares of Politicians. On the Rise of Fantasy Literature from Subcultural to Mass-cultural Phenomenon; Fantastic Liminality. A Theory Sketch; VISUALIZING THE FANTASTIC IN OUR CULTURE; Fantastic Language/Political Reporting. The Postcolonial SF Illocutionary Force is with us; Visualising the Fantastic in Strange Embrace; Love your Zombie. Romancing the Undead.

God Hates Fangs? Morality, Ideology, and the Domesticated Vampire in American Culture; The Semiotics of Sexual Transformation. Ursula and Ariel as Representations of Metamorphosis in The Little Mermaid; FANTASTIC GENRES: FANTASY; Taking a Zebra to Vegas. Allegorical Reality in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians Series; "Real adventures weren't about Hogwarts and Muggles." Intertextual References in Amanda Hemingway's Sangreal-Trilogy; On Alien Alders. The "Erl-King" inspirations in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Saga.

"It's magical!" Supernatural Elements in Children's Literature and Young Adults' Fiction; Story Matters. Story and its Concept in Tolkien and Pratchett; Grimmerie and Primer. Wicked and Diamond Age as Instructional Texts; FANTASTIC GENRES: SCIENCE FICTION; The Haunted House of Science Fiction. Modern Ghosts, Crypts, and Technologies; Difference and Resistance in M.T. Anderson's Feed; Disharmony and Dystopia. Music in Classic Dystopian Fiction; Facing the End of the World. Margaret Atwood's Post-apocalyptic Science Fiction.

Is the Scientist Still Mad? Renegotiations of a Cultural Stereotype in New Hard Science Fiction; Utopian, Dystopian and Subversive Strategies in Recent German Alternate History Fictions; CONFERENCE THEME STORY; A Pocketful of Faces; Contributors.

Summary: Even though the fantastic has been a part of our culture for as long as it exists, it has not been a prominent feature of European academic interest. But the commencing boom of fantastic themes in contemporary media production has facilitated a paradigmatic change in research, prompting a wide interest in the fantastic in all its forms. This volume addresses this growing interest by reviewing the status of European research on the fantastic from an interdisciplinary perspective and by providing a necessary outlook for the future.

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Even though the fantastic has been a part of our culture for as long as it exists, it has not been a prominent feature of European academic interest. But the commencing boom of fantastic themes in contemporary media production has facilitated a paradigmatic change in research, prompting a wide interest in the fantastic in all its forms. This volume addresses this growing interest by reviewing the status of European research on the fantastic from an interdisciplinary perspective and by providing a necessary outlook for the future.