Space(s) of the Fantastic
A 21st Century Manifesto
1st Edition
Published on 29. December 2020
172 pages
978-1-000-29966-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a series of new addresses to the enduring problem of how to categorize the Fantastic. The approach taken is through the lens of spatiality; the Fantastic gives us new worlds, although of course these are refractions of worlds already in being. In place of 'real' spaces (whatever they might be), the Fantastic gives us imaginary spaces, although within those spaces historical and cultural conflicts are played out, albeit in forms that stretch our understanding of everyday location, and our usual interpretations of cause and effect. Many authors are addressed here, from a variety of different geographical and national traditions, thus demonstrating how the Fantastic - as a mode, a genre, a way of thinking, imagining and writing - continually traverses borders and boundaries. We hope to move the ongoing debate about the Fantastic forward in a scholarly as well as an engaging way.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-29966-3 (9781000299663)
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Persons
David Punter is Professor of Poetry Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
C. Bruna Mancini is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Calabria.
C. Bruna Mancini is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Calabria.
Content
1 Magissatopia: The Place of the Witch
DAVID PUNTER
2 Spaces of the Fantastic, the Fantastic of Spaces: (Psycho) Wandering the Urban Texture of London
C. BRUNA MANCINI
3 The Literary Motif of the Devil Architect: Where Built Space Meets the Fantastic
PATRICIA GARCIA
4 Time and Space in Fantastic Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier's Trilby
MATTHEW GIBSON
5 Border Imagery in Victorian 'Supernatural' Short Stories: The Portrait
MARIA TERESA CHIALANT
6 Rambles in the Fantastic: Digital Mapping Mary Shelley's Last Man
DAVID SANDNER
7 Home Is Where the Dark Is: A Literary Geography of Daphne du Maurier's Disturbing Genres
DAVID IAN PADDY
8 Place and Space in the Literary Utopia
PATRICK PARRINDER
9 Seeing Things: Competing Worlds in Octavia Butler's Kindred and China Mieville's The City and the City
LUCIE ARMITT
10 Of Borders and (W)holes: Porous Geographies of the Fantastic in China Mieville and Nora K. Jemisin
NICOLETTA VALLORANI
DAVID PUNTER
2 Spaces of the Fantastic, the Fantastic of Spaces: (Psycho) Wandering the Urban Texture of London
C. BRUNA MANCINI
3 The Literary Motif of the Devil Architect: Where Built Space Meets the Fantastic
PATRICIA GARCIA
4 Time and Space in Fantastic Theory and Fiction of Charles Nodier's Trilby
MATTHEW GIBSON
5 Border Imagery in Victorian 'Supernatural' Short Stories: The Portrait
MARIA TERESA CHIALANT
6 Rambles in the Fantastic: Digital Mapping Mary Shelley's Last Man
DAVID SANDNER
7 Home Is Where the Dark Is: A Literary Geography of Daphne du Maurier's Disturbing Genres
DAVID IAN PADDY
8 Place and Space in the Literary Utopia
PATRICK PARRINDER
9 Seeing Things: Competing Worlds in Octavia Butler's Kindred and China Mieville's The City and the City
LUCIE ARMITT
10 Of Borders and (W)holes: Porous Geographies of the Fantastic in China Mieville and Nora K. Jemisin
NICOLETTA VALLORANI
