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| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Vampirism as Political Theory: Voltaire to Alfred Rosenberg and Elfriede Jelinek | 3 |
| 2 | Mircea Eliade's Theory of the Fantastic | 13 |
| 3 | If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy | 21 |
| 4 | Order from Chaos: War, Pestilence, and the Near-Death Experience in Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider | 25 |
| 5 | The Flesh Made Word: Miss Lonelyhearts' Sublime Grotesque | 33 |
| 6 | The Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale | 39 |
| 7 | Virgin, Knight, and Devil: Gottfried Keller's Legends as Fantasy | 51 |
| 8 | Fantastic Doubles in Cristina Fernandez Cubas' Tales for Children | 57 |
| 9 | Hard To Be a God: The Political Antiworlds of Voznesensky, Sokolov, and the Brothers Strugatsky | 63 |
| 10 | The Wail of the Banshee: Vampire Ghosts, Man-Eating Ghosts, and Other Malevolent Spirits in Irish Fairy Tales | 71 |
| 11 | Borges' "El Aleph" and Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher": Two Studies in the Poetics of Gothic Romance | 83 |
| 12 | The Emphasis on the European Contact Situation in the American Science-Fiction Novel's Representation of the Culture | 89 |
| 13 | We Almost Ate from the Tree of Life: Fantasy and Horror in Ancient Near Eastern Religious Texts | 95 |
| 14 | "Eros and the Mer": Poetry and an Exhibition of Art | 105 |
| 15 | Frankenstein and Dracula: The Question of Influence | 123 |
| 16 | Burger's Ballad "Lenore": En Route to Dracula | 131 |
| 17 | Simmons and Powers: Postmodernism to Postromanticism | 139 |
| 18 | Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats | 149 |
| 19 | Francis Coppola's Secret Gardens: Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Auteur as Decadent Visionary | 167 |
| 20 | Shape-shifting, Vampires, and the Oedipus Myth: Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine | 173 |
| 21 | Pierre Menard in Cyberspace: The Internet as Intertext | 181 |
| 22 | Re-membering: Time and Myth in Kleinzeit and The Medusa Frequency | 189 |
| Index | 197 | |
| About the Contributors | 201 |
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reviewed Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 68 on May 24, 2014
Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 68
Biography is the dominant nonfiction of the present age. It even pervades the media. So why, Hamilton asks, can one find "no single, accessible introduction to the subject, either for the general reader or the specialist?" As a subject, biography per se is not taught at the college level, and biographers are rarely represented in literature anthologies. "Distinguished chairs" in literature go to postmodern studies, women's studies--virtually any specialization but biography. The great misfortune for biography, Hamilton points out, is that "instead of becoming, like 'history' or 'art' or 'literature,' a premier domain of the humanities and sciences" biography came to be "constrained by a focus so narrow that no student could be made sufficiently curious to learn of its history," its "integral role in the shaping of human identity," or its "varying practice through the ages across different media." Hamilton discusses all this here and in so doing begins to rectify an enormous injustice. He shows that biography in itself is a form of knowledge or way of apprehending the world that deserves its own departments and centers of scholarly study. Supported and explicated by lively studies like this one, biography may finally get the respect it deserves.
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