Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film

by Jan Hokenson

This new essay collection, edited by Jan Hokenson and Howard Pearce, explores the surprising variety of guises the impulse toward the fantastic has taken throughout history. Incorporating wide-ranging perspectives, the twenty-six essays in the volume include studies of the fantastic in literature, art, philosophy, film, psychology, drama, history, and aesthetics. Among the subjects and forms examined are allegories, animal fables, horror stories and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313250359
• ISBN13: 9780313250354
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"