Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy - George E. Slusser - Hardcover

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 are: 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 Verne: Journey to the Cen ter of Science Fiction"; Joseph Lenz, who teaches English Literature at the University of Michigan, "Manifest Destiny: 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 Fiction: ‘Waldo' and ‘Desertion'" ;Robert Hunt, an editor with Glencoe Press, "Sci ence Fiction for the Age of Inflation: Reading Atlas Shruggedin the 1980s"; George R. Guffey, Professor of English at UCLA, " Fahr enheit 451and 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 Fiction: 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, " Shein Her/and:Femi nism as Fantasy"; and George R. Slusser, Cu rator of the Eaton Collection, "Death and the Mirror: Existential Fantasy."Slusser, George E. is the author of 'Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy - George E. Slusser - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780809311057 and ISBN 0809311054.