The Fantastic Other An Interface of Perspectives
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
Critical Studies, 11
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Brett COOKE: Introduction: Deception, Self-Deception and the Other. Eric S. RABKIN: Imagination and Survival: The Case of Fantastic Literature. Michael BEEHLER: Speculation's Fiasco: Lem, Ethics, and Alterity. Stephen H. DANIEL: The Lure of the Other: Hegel to Kristeva. Lance OLSEN: Narrative Overdrive: Postmodern Fantasy, Deconstruction and Cultural Critique in Beckett and Barthelme. Stephen MILLER: Structuring Probability, Possibility, and Ultimate Questions: Theory and Practice of Fantastic Fiction in Torrente Ballester. Gerald PRINCE: Narratology and Genre: The Case of The Monkey's Paw. Suzette HADEN ELGIN: The Feminist Pragmatics of Applied Fantasy. Brett COOKE: Constraining the Other in Kvapil and Dvorák's Rusalka. Wulf KOEPKE: Nothing but the Dark Side of Ourselves? The Devil and Aesthetic Nihilism. H. Bruce FRANKLIN: The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Gary WESTFAHL: Marxism, Science Fiction, and The Fantastic Other. Frank DIETZ: The Doppelgänger Motif in Speculative Fiction. David H. ROSEN: Archetypes of Transformation: Healing the Self/Other Split through Creative Active Imagination. Margaret WISE PETROCHENKOV: Castration Anxiety and the Other in Zamyatin's We. Judith LEE: Freed from Certainty: Toward a Feminist Theory of the Literary Fantastic.
Includes bibliographical references and index