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Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich, Massachusetts
About this volume /Claire Whitehead --Critical contexts --The emergence and evolution of the fantastic /David Sandner --Tolkien and the fantasy tradition /Dimitra Fimi --Rethinking the fantastic and related modes: new perspectives from spatial theory...
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About this volume /Claire Whitehead --Critical contexts --The emergence and evolution of the fantastic /David Sandner --Tolkien and the fantasy tradition /Dimitra Fimi --Rethinking the fantastic and related modes: new perspectives from spatial theory /Amaryll Chanady --Never take a psychic to a "bad place": the haunted house in modern American horror fiction /Bernice M. Murphy --Critical readings --Women writers in the haunted house of fiction /Lucie Armitt --E.T.A. Hoffmann and the fantastic /Birgit Roder --Prosper Merimee's playful fantastic /Peter Cogman --The pedagogical fantastic in Edgar Allan Poe and Vladimir Odoevsky /Slobodan Sucur --Borges and the fantastic /Donald Shaw --Fictional world polyphony and the image of modern consciousness in novels by Hermann Broch and Milan Kundera /Tomas Kubicek --Thomas Pynchon and the contemporary forms of the fantastic /Eugenio Bolongaro --Calvino, the fairytale and two stories for children /Daniela de Pau --Marie Ndiaye's uncanny realism /Daisy Connon --Monsters of the fantastic: fusions of the mythical and the real /Joseph Andriano --Resources --Additional works on the fantastic. Tales of magic, the supernatural, and the uncanny have been around as long as people have been telling stories. This volume presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme
