Contours of the Fantastic
Subtitle: Selected Essays from the Eighth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: May 23, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780313266478
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Science Fiction And Fantasy; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Literary Criticism & Collections / Science Fiction; Congresses; Fantasy literature; History and criticism; Science fiction
First sentence: The kinds of fiction in which we are most interested exhibit marked breaks between reality and the surreality represented in the story.