Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature

by Gary K. Wolfe

Book Overview

A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and grow

In this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819569372
• ISBN13: 9780819569370
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher