Collision of realities establishing research on the fantastic in Europe (De Gruyter, 2012)
English-language papers from the conference "Fremde Welten: Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert," held October 1, 2010 in Hamburg, Germany and sponsored by the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung. German-language papers from this conference published separately as: Fremde Welten : Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin : de Gruyter, c2012
"Even though the fantastic has been a part of our culture for as long as it exists, it has not been a prominent feature of European academic interest. But the commencing boom of fantastic themes in contemporary media production has facilitated a paradigmatic change in research, prompting a wide interest in the fantastic in all its forms. This volume addresses this growing interest by reviewing the status of European research on the fantastic from an interdisciplinary perspective and by providing a necessary outlook for the future."--
Includes bibliographical references
The fantastic, theory and history: The art and science of heterocosmic creativity / Brian Stableford ; "It's not what you see -- it's how you see what you see":the fantastic as an epistemological concept / Jan Christoph Meister ; The nightmares of politicians: on the rise of fantasy literature from subcultural to mass-cultural phenomenon / René Schallegger ; Fantastic liminality: a theory sketch / Clemens Ruthner -- Visualizing the fantastic in our culture: Fantastic language/political reporting: the postcolonial SF Illocutionary Force is with us / Marleen S. Barr ; Visualising the fantastic in Strange embrace / Markus Oppolzer ; Love your zombie: romancing the undead / Christian Lenz ; God hates fangs?: morality, ideology, and the domesticated vampire in American culture / Simone Knewitz ; The semiotics of sexual transformation: Ursula and Ariel as representations of metamorphosis in The little mermaid / Paul Beehler --
Fantastic genres: fantasy: Taking a zebra to Vegas: allegorical reality in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series / Lily Glasner ; "Real adventures weren't about Hogwarts and Muggles": intertextual references in Amanda Hemingway's Sangreal-Trilogy / Anne Klaus ; On alien alders: the "Erl-King" inspirations in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Saga / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Agata Zarzycka ; "It's magical!": supernatural elements in children's literature and young adults' fiction / Karin Kokorski ; Story matters: story and its concept in Tolkien and Pratchett / Margarida McMurry ; Grimmerie and primer: Wicked and Diamond age as instructional texts / Wallace T. Cleaves II --