Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy

by George Edgar Slusser (Editor), Eric S. Rabkin (Editor), Robert Scholes (Editor)

These thirteen original essays were written specifically for the Third J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held February 21-22, 1981, at the University of California, Riverside. Leslie Fiedler sets the tone of this volume by fixing a basic set of coordinates--that of "elitist" and "popular" standards. Those replying to his charge Eric S. Rabkin, Professor of English at the Univer-sity of Michigan and author of "The Fantastic""in Literature, ""The Descent of Fantasy"; Gerald Prince, Professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania, "How New is New?"; Mark Rose, Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, author of "Alien Encounters, ""Jules Journey to the Cen-ter of Science Fiction"; Joseph Lenz, who teaches English Literature at the University of Michigan, "Manifest Science Fic-tion Epic and Classical Forms"; Michelle Masse, of the English Department at the George Mason University, "'All you have to do is know what you want' Individual Ex-pectations in "Triton"";""Gary K. Wolfe, who teaches English at Roosevelt University, au-thor of "The Known and the Unknown, ""Autoplastic and Alloplastic Adaptations in Science 'Waldo' and 'Desertion'"; Robert Hunt, an editor with Glencoe Press, "Sci-ence Fiction for the Age of Reading "Atlas Shrugged "in the 1980s"; George R. Guffey, Professor of English at UCLA, ""Fahr-enheit ""451"and the 'Cubby-Hole Editors' of Ballantine Books"; H. Bruce Franklin, Pro-fessor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University at Newark, "America as Science 1939"; Sandra M. Gilbert, Professor of English at the University of Cal-ifornia at Davis, and coauthor with Susan Gubar of "Madwoman in the Attic, ""Rider Hag-gard's Heart of Darkness"; the aforemen-tioned Susan Gubar, Professor of English at Indiana University, ""She "in "Her/ "Femi-nism as Fantasy"; and George R. Slusser, Cu-rator of the Eaton Collection, "Death and the Existential Fantasy."

218 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 1983