Title: 'Curious, if true' : the fantastic in literature /
Authors: Bright, Amy
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism.; Fantasy literature History and criticism.
Contents: "The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train": the Gothic schism and the roots of fantasy / Luke R.J. Maynard -- The future of art: phenomenal virtue in Purgatorio X & XII / Gaelan Gilbert -- Genre, non-correspondency, and the fanastic real in The Hound of the Baskervilles / Mary Ellen Wennekers -- "The love of beautiful things": Norse mythology and greed in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit / Elisa Bursten -- "A game of worlds": crossing mythologies in Michael Chabon's Summerland / Amy Bright -- Ambiguous gods: mythology, immigration, and assimilation in Neil Gaiman's American Gods (2001) and "The Monarch of the Glen" (2004) / Max F.R. Olesen -- "Self-contained and singing to itself": reading the fairy Melusine in A.S. Byatt's Possession / Laura van Dyke -- The ugly fantasy: the disfigured vampire as a model of the contemporary bisexual / Erin Dunbar -- Disease in the land of the magically real: the illness narrative transposed / Tessa Mellas -- "At a slight angle to reality": postmodernism, postcolonialism, and Salman Rushdie's magic realism / Shannon M. Minifie -- "[T]hat things could be different": feminist, queer, and science fiction politics in Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton / Casey Stepaniuk -- Recurring dreams: hauntung fantasy in John Fowle's The Magnus / Thomas Stuart.