What Constitutes the Fantastics?

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The question "What Constitutes the Fantastic?" was raised in connection with two bilateral dissertation networks between the Universities of Salzburg and Szeged funded by the Aktion Austria-Hungary and entitied "The Fantastic: Genres and Media of Cultural Representation" (2004-2008), coordinated by Sarolta Marinovich-Resch, György E. Szőnyi and Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. This network involved over twenty young researchers, who regularly met at jointiy organised workshops and explored generic properties of the fantastic both by reading literature, examining films, and discussing theories of the fantastic. The present volume brings together a selection of the papers given at these workshops. It documents our work, showing the paths we pursued and the texts with which we engaged within the framework of this joint doctoral programme rather than offering a chronological reading of key fantastic texts or following one particular
approach.
The essays included in this volume reflect the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The question "What Constitutes the Fantastic?" was raised in connection with two bilateral dissertation networks between the Universities of Salzburg and Szeged funded by the Aktion Austria-Hungary and entitied "The Fantastic: Genres and Media of Cultural Representation" (2004-2008), coordinated by Sarolta Marinovich-Resch, György E. Szőnyi and Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. This network involved over twenty young researchers, who regularly met at jointiy organised workshops and explored generic properties of the fantastic both by reading literature, examining films, and discussing theories of the fantastic. The present volume brings together a selection of the papers given at these workshops. It documents our work, showing the paths we pursued and the texts with which we engaged within the framework of this joint doctoral programme rather than offering a chronological reading of key fantastic texts or following one particular
approach.
The essays included in this volume reflect the wide range of concrete research topics of the PhD students (from Szeged and Salzburg alike), such as fantastic body transformations, possible and imaginary worlds of science fiction, the theoretical and generic issues of classical and postmodern vampire hterature, fantasy worlds in comics and graphic novels, etc. The cooperative research work has paid special attention to the theoretical issues in connection with larger genres, too, such as romance, Gothic, horror, and magic realism. We have also found it important to stretch the scope of investigations through large cultural periods, from early modern times to postmodern representations. Vissza