TY - BOOK ID - 135352456 TI - The Fantastic Other : An Interface of Perspectives AU - Cooke, Brett AU - Slusser, George E. AU - Marti-Olivella, Jaume PY - 1998 SN - 9789004455016 9789042004016 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Self in literature KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135352456 AB - The Fantastic Other is a carefully assembled collection of essays on the increasingly significant question of alterity in modern fantasy, the ways in which the understanding and construction of the Other shapes both our art and our imagination. The collection takes a unique perspective, seeing alterity not merely as a social issue but as a biological one. Our fifteen essays cover the problems posed by the Other, which, after all, go well beyond the bounds of any single critical perspective. With this in mind, we have selected studies to show how insights from deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and Freudian, Jungian and evolutionary psychology help us understand an issue so central to the act of reading. ER -