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Collision of Realities : Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe.
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 inter...
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.