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Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Alternatives) Book
These thirteen original essays were written specifically for the Third J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held February 21â??22, 1981, at the University of California, Riverside. Leslie Fiedler sets the tone of this volume by fixing a basic set of coordinatesâ??that of â??elitistâ? and â??popularâ? standards. Those replying to his charge are: Eric S. Rabkin, Professor of English at the UniverÂsity of Michigan and author of The Fantastic in Literature, â??The Descent of Fantasyâ?; Gerald Prince, Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania, â??How New is New?â?; Mark Rose, Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, author of Alien Encounters, â??Jules Verne: Journey to the CenÂter of Science Fictionâ?; Joseph Lenz, who teaches English Literature at the University of Michigan, â??Manifest Destiny: Science FicÂtion Epic and Classical Formsâ?; Michelle Massé, of the English Department at the George Mason University, â??â??All you have to do is know what you wantâ??: Individual ExÂpectations in Tritonâ?; Gary K. Wolfe, who teaches English at Roosevelt University, auÂthor of The Known and the Unknown, â??Autoplastic and Alloplastic Adaptations in Science Fiction: â??Waldoâ?? and â??Desertionâ??â?; Robert Hunt, an editor with Glencoe Press, â??SciÂence Fiction for the Age of Inflation: Reading Atlas Shrugged in the 1980sâ?; George R. Guffey, Professor of English at UCLA, â??FahrÂenheit 451 and the â??Cubby-Hole Editorsâ?? of Ballantine Booksâ?; H. Bruce Franklin, ProÂfessor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University at Newark, â??America as Science Fiction: 1939â?; Sandra M. Gilbert, Professor of English at the University of CalÂifornia at Davis, and coauthor with Susan Gubar of Madwoman in the Attic, â??Rider HagÂgardâ??s Heart of Darknessâ?; the aforemenÂtioned Susan Gubar, Professor of English at Indiana University, â??She in Her/and: FemiÂnism as Fantasyâ?; and George R. Slusser, CuÂrator of the Eaton Collection, â??Death and the Mirror: Existential Fantasy.â?Read More
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- 0809311054
- 9780809311057
- George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Robert Scholes
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 224
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