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Original publisher’s sewn paperback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: xvi, 288pp., 15 contributions, footnotes, references. CONTRIBUTIONS: 1. Brett Cooke: Introduction: Deception, Self-Deception and the Other. 2. Eric S. Rabkin: Imagination and Survival: The Case of Fantastic Literature. 3. Michael Beehler: Speculation’s Fiasco: Lem, Ethics, and Alterity. 4. Stephen H. Daniel: The Lure of the Other: Hegel to Kristeva. 5. Lance Olsen: Narrative Overdrive: Postmodern Fantasy, Deconstruction and Cultural Critique in Beckett and Barthelme. 6. Stephen Miller: Structuring Probability, Possibility, and Ultimate Questions: Theory and Practice of Fantastic Fiction in Torrente Ballester. 7. Gerald Prince: Narratology and Genre: The Case of The Monkey’s Paw. 8. Suzette Haden Elgin: The Feminist Pragmatics of Applied Fantasy. 9. Brett Cooke: Constraining the Other in Kvapil and Dvorák’s Rusalka. 10. Wulf Koepke: Nothing but the Dark Side of Ourselves? The Devil and Aesthetic Nihilism. 11. H. Bruce Franklin: The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy. 12. Gary Westfahl: Marxism, Science Fiction, and “The Fantastic Other”. 13. Frank Dietz: The Doppelgänger Motif in Speculative Fiction. 14. David H. Rosen: Archetypes of Transformation: Healing the Self/Other Split through Creative Active Imagination. 15. Margaret Wise Petrochenkov: Castration Anxiety and the Other in Zamyatin’s We. 16. Judith Lee: Freed from Certainty: Toward a Feminist Theory of the Literary Fantastic. Very fine copy – as new., Volume 11: Critical Studies. A Journal of Critical Theory, Literature & Culture.