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The Canadian fantastic in focus : new perspectives / edited by Allan Weiss.
- Title
- The Canadian fantastic in focus : new perspectives / edited by Allan Weiss.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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- Description
- 243 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Bringing together papers presented at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy from 2005 to 2013, this collection of fresh essays includes two plenary session keynote addresses--by Veronica Hollinger and by Robert Runte--and 15 papers on science fiction and fantasy literature, television and music by Canadian creators"--
- Subjects
- Canadian fiction
- Fantasy fiction, Canadian
- Science fiction, Canadian
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Conference papers and proceedings
- 2000 - 2099
- Canadian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism > Congresses
- Fantasy fiction, Canadian > History and criticism > Congresses
- Science fiction, Canadian > History and criticism > Congresses
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- "Proceedings of the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2005-2013."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Keynote Addresses -- Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social Dimension of Reading / Robert Runte -- The Body on the Slab / Veronica Hollinger -- Canadian Science Fiction -- Cybernetic Opium Eating, the Kantian Use of Human Beings and Neuromancing the Gothic Imagination: A Narrative Link / David Milman -- One Thing After Another / Dominick Grace -- Here Be Monsters: Posthuman Adaptation and Subjectivity in Peter Watts' Starfish / Clare Wall -- Robert Charles Wilson's Mysterium: Thoughts on the Modern Reception of Gnosticism / Michael Kaler -- New Half-Way Tree and the Second World: Themes of Nation and Colonization in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber / Brecken Hancock -- Canadian Fantasy and Dark Fantasy -- Sacred Cities: Charles de Lint's Newford Books and the Mythologizing of the North American Urban Landscape / Cat Ashton -- The Word and the Flesh: Natural Law vs. Catholic Dogma in Rikki Ducnornet's The Stain / Tammy Dasti -- Writing About Invented Places: Esther Rochon's Archipelago of Vrenalik / Maude Deschenes-Pradet -- Speculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place / Derek Newman-Stille -- "God's Country," Evil's Playground: Susie Moloney, Michael Rowe, Brian Horeck and the Northern Ontario Gothic / Cat Ashton -- Can the Witch Speak? The Supernatural Subaltern in Kelley Armstrong's Other world / Adam Guzkowski -- Navigating the Darkness: Blindness and Vampirism in Tanya Huff's Blood Books / Derek Newman-Stille -- Media Expressions -- Scott Pilgrim vs. the Megacity / Chester N. Scoville -- From "Space Oddity" to Canadian Reality / Isabelle Fournier -- From Monstrous Mommies to Hunting Heroines: The Evolution of Women on Supernatural / Lisa Macklem.
- ISBN
- 9780786495924
- 0786495928
- 9781476617909
- 1476617902
- LCCN
- ^^2014038569
- OCLC
- 903902301
- SCSB-12405145
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library