This comprehensive volume explores the relationship between sex and the fantastic in science fiction and fantasy literature. More than a dozen scholars have contributed essays in which they discuss almost two hundred novels, short stories, tales, plays, poems, myths, and nearly one hundred authors--from Aldiss to Zelazny. The collection is divided into three main sections, the first of which is devoted to the theoretical analysis of the relationship between sexuality and the fantastic. This section contains essays on ...
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This comprehensive volume explores the relationship between sex and the fantastic in science fiction and fantasy literature. More than a dozen scholars have contributed essays in which they discuss almost two hundred novels, short stories, tales, plays, poems, myths, and nearly one hundred authors--from Aldiss to Zelazny. The collection is divided into three main sections, the first of which is devoted to the theoretical analysis of the relationship between sexuality and the fantastic. This section contains essays on sexuality and the allure of fantasy, and sexuality and knowledge in science fiction. The second section turns to thematic analyses and includes essays that explore such themes as sexuality and death, forbidden sexuality, sexual attitudes and the search for ethics in contemporary culture, sex and technology, sexual encounters with aliens, sexuality and comedy, and homosexuality in fantasy and science fiction. The third section, devoted to feminist views of sexuality in fantastic literature, includes several studies of the depiction of sexuality in the works of female fantasists, and focuses most closely on Russ, Piercy, LeGuin, and Carter. Examined here is the potential use of science fiction as a vehicle for theorizing about women and for questioning their condition in society. The volume also includes an introductory overview and critical commentary on the literature and a comprehensive, contributor-compiled bibliography of primary works and scholarship on sexuality and related issues in fantastic literature.
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VG-/VG-(Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. ) Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; light aqua dj with purple lettering and illustration, mylar cover; xviii, 305 pp. Contents: Sexuality and the allure of the fantastic in literature / Donald Palumbo--Survival: the search for an ethic in a changing world / Judith Bogert--Sexes, genders, and discrimination / William M. Schuyler Jr. --Eve at the end of the world: sexuality and the reversal of expectations in novels by Joanna Russ, Angela Carter, & Thomas Berger / Brooks Landon--Dialectic of sex and death in fantasy / Ann Morris--From Barsoom to Giffard: sexual comedy in science fiction and fantasy / Judith Bogert--Technology and sexuality in science fiction: creating new erotic interfaces / Valerie Broege--Close encounters of the carnal kind: sex with aliens in science fiction / Leonard G. Heldreth--Homosexuality in science fiction and fantasy / James D. Riemer--Science and fiction: ways of theorizing about women / Virginia Allen & Terri Paul--Permissive, unspectacular, a little baffling: sex and the single feminist utopian quasi-tribesperson / Marleen Barr--Functions of sexuality in the science fiction of Russ, Piercy, and Le Guin / Judith Spector--Speculations on heterosexual equality: Morris, McCaffrey, Le Guin / Lillian M. Heldreth--Again, the left hand of darkness: androgyny or homophobia? / Patricia Frazer Lamb & Diana L. Vieth--Romantic myth, transcendence, and Star trek zines / Patricia Frazer Lamb & Diana L. Veith.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0313241015. CLEAN BRIGHT & TIGHT! Black cloth boards, silver gilt on spine, minimal if any shelfwear. DJ shows one small stain to rear, several small chips at corners, spine & edges but protected in acid free mylar jacket protector.
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