Exploring the Fantastic
Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Introduction
Seiten 7 - 14 -
GENRE
Belief, Potentiality, and the Supernatural: Mapping the Fantastic
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Fantasy without Fantasy: Politics, Genre, and Media in the Fiction of M. John Harrison
Seiten 37 - 60 -
Is the Fantastic Really Fantastic?
Seiten 61 - 90 -
Insurgent Utopias: How to Recognize the Knock at the Door
Seiten 91 - 114 -
IDEOLOGY
Crossing Impossible Boundaries? Fantastic Narrative and Ideology
Seiten 117 - 140 -
Questioning Mononormativity: A Future of Fantastic Scholarship in Liminal Identities
Seiten 141 - 164 -
Organic Fantasy and the Alien Archetype in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon
Seiten 165 - 188 -
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
Seiten 189 - 210 -
POPULAR CULTURE
Flights of Fancy, Secondary Worlds and Blank Slates: Relations between the Fantastic and the Real
Seiten 213 - 238 -
Creepypastas: How Counterterrorist Fantasies (Re-)Create Horror Traditions for Today's Digital Communities
Seiten 239 - 268 -
"All the Better to Eat You With": The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age
Seiten 269 - 294 -
About the Authors
Seiten 295 - 300
3. April 2018, 300 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4027-4
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