Exploring the Fantastic : : Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture / / ed. by Ina Batzke, Corinna Lenhardt, Linda M. Heß, Eric C. Erbacher.
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lettre
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- GENRE
- Belief, Potentiality, and the Supernatural: Mapping the Fantastic
- Fantasy without Fantasy: Politics, Genre, and Media in the Fiction of M. John Harrison
- Is the Fantastic Really Fantastic?
- Insurgent Utopias: How to Recognize the Knock at the Door
- IDEOLOGY
- Crossing Impossible Boundaries? Fantastic Narrative and Ideology
- Questioning Mononormativity: A Future of Fantastic Scholarship in Liminal Identities
- Organic Fantasy and the Alien Archetype in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon
- Latino/a Magical Realism and American Superhero Fiction as Constitutive Agents in the Negotiation of Dominican-American Identity in Junot Díaz' The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- POPULAR CULTURE
- Flights of Fancy, Secondary Worlds and Blank Slates: Relations between the Fantastic and the Real
- Creepypastas: How Counterterrorist Fantasies (Re-)Create Horror Traditions for Today's Digital Communities
- "All the Better to Eat You With": The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age
- About the Authors