Preface<BR>

Introduction: Learning to Resist the Wolf by Nicholas Ruddick<BR>

A Manifesto for Fantasists<BR>

Oh God, Here Come the Elves! by Jane Yolen<BR>

Unreal Rhetorics: Contemporary Fantastic Theory and Practice<BR>

Fantasy and the Narrative Transaction by Brian Attebery<BR>

Specular SF: Postmodern Allegory by Veronica Hollinger<BR>

Knowing about Knowing: Paradigms of Knowledge in the Postmodern Fantastic by Peter Malekin<BR>

Im/maculate: Some Instances of Gnostic Science Fiction by Reinhold Kramer<BR>

The Reproduction of the Body in Space by Elisabeth Vonarburg<BR>

Recovering the Numinous: Studies in the British and European Fantastic<BR>

M.G. Lewis and Later Gothic Fiction: The Numinous Dissipated by Robert F. Geary<BR>

The Taming of the Screw: Rohmer's Filming of Kleist's "Die Marquise von O . . . " by Mary Rhiel<BR>

Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Fantastic by Tony Chadwick and Virginia Harger-Grinling<BR>

Caricature, Parody, Satire: Narrative Masks as Subversion of the Picaro in Patrick Suskind's "Perfume" by Edith Borchardt<BR>

From the Empire of the Senseless: Studies in American Fantasy and Science Fiction<BR>

Reality, Fiction and Wu in "The Man in the High Castle" by Jianjiong Zhu<BR>

Zelazny's Black: The Sidekick as Second Self by Carl B. Yoke<BR>

Suicide, Murder, Culture, and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ's "We Who Are About To . . . " by Patrick D. Murphy<BR>

Getting a Kick out of Chaos: "Fortunate Failure" in Greg Bear's Future Histories by Len Hatfield<BR>

Out of Blue Water: Dream Flight and Narrative Construction in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Grace A. Epstein<BR>

Dominance and Subversion: The Horizontal Sublime and Erotic Empowerment in the Works of Kathy Acker by Greg Lewis Peters<BR>

Machine Nightmares: Sex and Techno-Horror in Fantastic Literature and Film<BR>

The Dawn Patrol: Sex, Technology, and Irony in Farmer and Ballard by Gary K. Wolfe<BR>

The Making of Frankenstein's Monster: Post-Golem, Pre-Robot by Norma Rowen<BR>

"Westworld," "Futureworld," and the World's Obscenity by J. P. Telotte<BR>

The Animal at the Door: Modern Works of Horror and the Natural Animalby Marian Scholtmeijer<BR>

Index