The Fantastic

Author : Ina Batzke
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839440270
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Fantastic written by Ina Batzke and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.

Author : Brett Cooke
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042004009
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fantastic Other written by Brett Cooke and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fantastic Other is a carefully assembled collection of essays on the increasingly significant question of alterity in modern fantasy, the ways in which the understanding and construction of the Other shapes both our art and our imagination. The collection takes a unique perspective, seeing alterity not merely as a social issue but as a biological one. Our fifteen essays cover the problems posed by the Other, which, after all, go well beyond the bounds of any single critical perspective. With this in mind, we have selected studies to show how insights from deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and Freudian, Jungian and evolutionary psychology help us understand an issue so central to the act of reading.

Author : I. Eynat-Confino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616968
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre written by I. Eynat-Confino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic.

Author : Amaryll Beatrice Chanady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000639053
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magical Realism and the Fantastic written by Amaryll Beatrice Chanady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every reader of literature interprets the literary text on the basis of information they have acquired from previous reading, and according to norms they have established, either consciously or not, with regard to a work of literature. In this study, originally published in 1985, the author clarifies the concepts of magical realism and the fantastic, and establishes a series of guidelines that will allow us to distinguish between the two similar yet independent modes. The reader will thus be able to identify the implicit framework upon which the author of the fantastic and of magical realism bases their text.

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434448460
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking of the Fantastic III written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darrell Schweitzer interviews seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Joe W. Haldeman, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D. G. Compton, Robert J. Sawyer, Charles Stross, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Howard Waldrop.

Author : Michele Langford
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780313266478
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contours of the Fantastic written by Michele Langford and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990-05-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the world of the imaginary, the dream, the uncanny, the paranormal, and all forms of speculative fiction, Contours of the Fantastic is a collection of twenty-two essays that were originally presented at the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts at Houston in 1987. The volume gives valuable perspectives on the territory covered by the fantastic, showing the diversity of the field and the variety of approaches used to survey and comprehend it. Each essay brings its own method of investigation--phenomenological, theoretical, historical, sociological, psychological, textual--in an effort to situate the border between reality and fantasy and the passage from one to the other. Authors and works discussed in the volume include Balzac, Dickens, Poe, Aldous Huxley, C. S. Lewis, Tolkien, Muriel Spark, Mary Shelley, Albee's The Zoo Story, Pynchon, Coleridge's Christabel, Le Fanu's Carmilla, and Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant trilogies. Following the editor's introductory essay, the work is divided into 7 sections: Fantasy and Discontinuity, Theory of National Fantasy--Tradition and Invention, Fantastic Vision in Children's Literature, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, Fusion, Transfusion, and Transgression in the Fantastic, The Fantastic and Science, and The Fantastic World--Space and Time. Individual essays within these major divisions zero in on specific works of fantasy; offer a psychology of fantasy writers; analyze language; assess fantasy from a national perspective; and investigate Christian horror in fiction. The final two sections delineate the border between fantasy and reality--in science and in relation to space and time. Among the outstanding contributors are Brian Aldiss, novelist, poet, and critic, author of more than two dozen books-- many of which are considered science fiction classics; Vivian Sobchack, science fiction film critic and writer on semiotics and phenomenology; and Nancy Willard, author of prize-winning novels, collected stories, poetry, and children's books. Generalists in literature and the arts, sociology, the natural sciences, engineering, and aeronautics as well as students and scholars, aestheticians, and critics of the fantasy/science fiction genres in literature, film, and art will find this collection both a useful and fascinating volume.

Author : Judika Illes
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1633410390
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten written by Judika Illes and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more. These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto—edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories—some of which have been forgotten over the years, like buried treasure—will thrill and chill readers to the bone. During the dark, eerie hours, when the wind is blowing and the ghosts are roaming outside, these tales can fill a night with pleasant terror—as well as encouraging our minds to venture beyond the mundane into the realm of the fantastic.

Author : Becky Citra
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1551439506
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeremy and the Fantastic Flying Machine written by Becky Citra and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to save Mr. Magnus's enchanted theater, Jeremy and his cat Aristotle travel back in time to ancient Greece where they encounter the Minotaur's maze and Daedalus's flying machine.

Author : Mark Sawicki
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1136066624
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filming the Fantastic: A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography written by Mark Sawicki and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't waste valuable time and budget fixing your footage in post! Shoot the effects you want effectively and creatively the first time. This full-color step-by step guide to visual effects cinematography empowers you to plan out and execute visual effects shots on a budget, without falling into the common pitfall of using high-end computer graphics to "fix it in post. Learn how to effectively photograph foreground miniatures, matte paintings, green screen set ups, miniatures, crowd replication, explosions, and so much more to create elements that will composite together flawlessly. Filming the Fantastic focuses on the art and craft of visual effects using real case scenarios from a visual effects cameraman. These lessons from the front line will give you ideas and insight so you can translate your skills into any situation, no matter what camera or software package you are using and no matter if you are using film or digital technology. Learn how to film your fantastic visual effects with this book!

Author : Diane Borsato
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615199594
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi written by Diane Borsato and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A merry, idiosyncratic guide, charmingly illustrated.”—Eugenia Bone, The Wall Street Journal An illustrated guide to over 100 types of mushrooms, offering insights and stories about these mysterious organisms An incredible diversity of fungi is flourishing all around us, not just in the forest but in parks, markets, and even museums. Once you know how to look, you can find mushrooms named after fairies and demons, mushrooms that look so much like woodland birds they are shot at by hunters, mushrooms that glow in the dark . . . and so much more. Beyond serving as a guide for identification, Mushrooming explores how “the quiet hunt” can radically expand our perspectives, connect us to nature, and enrich our lives. Whether you’re a beginner forager or an expert mycophile, this is the perfect handbook to spark your curiosity and deepen your appreciation for the fantastic, delicious, deadly, and strange world of fungi.