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EN 104 - Literature of the Fantastic - Professor Cavelos: Book Chapters

Sample Keyword Searches

insanity and horror
(journey OR epic OR odyssey) AND (science fiction OR fantas* fiction) 
(fiction OR literature) AND "other world*" 
"perilous realm" 
"other worlds" AND "science fiction" 
(insanity or madness) AND horror AND (literature OR fiction) 
"science fiction" AND theor*
genre* AND horror
happy ending* AND (fantas* OR science fiction)
romantic AND (fantas* OR science fiction)

Sample Subject Searches

Fairies — Fiction
Fairy Tales
Fantasy Fiction
Fantasy Literature
Folklore
Gothic Fiction
Horror Tales
Imagination in Literature
LeGuin, Ursula — Criticism (or use any author as a subject; last name first)
Myth in Literature
Science Fiction
Supernatural in Literature

Selected Titles

Here next  are some sample book titles retrieved either from the Library Catalog, WorldCat, or ProQuest Ebook Central when using keywords and subject headings such as those noted in the boxes above.  Please note:  There are many other relevant titles. This is just a selected list.

Asimov On Science Fiction  PN3433.5 .A8

Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature  PR149 .F35 C36 2012

Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction  On Order 

Dark Descent  PS648 .H6D36 1987

Different Engines:  How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
PN3433.6 B73 (2008)

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination  PR9199.3.A8 Z545 2011

Fantastic Odysseys:  Selected Essays  PN56 .F34 I58 2003

Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural  PS147 .W44 2008

Finding Oz:  How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
PS3503.A923 W5987 2009

Focus on the Science Fiction Film  PN1995.9 .S26J6

Science Fiction:  a Collection of Critical Essays  PN3433.8 .S27 1976

Science Fiction:  History, Science, Vision  PN3433.8 .S266 1977

Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow  PN3433.5 .B74 1974

Speculations on Speculation:  Theories of Science Fiction  PN3433.5 .S64 2005

Supernatural Horror in Literature  PN3435 .L64 1973

Speculations on Speculation : Theories of Science Fiction

Uses of Enchantment:  the Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales  GR550 .B47

Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy  PS 374 .F27 W36 2006
 

Hint:  When you locate a useful book or book chapter, look to the right and left of it on the book shelves and scan the 'Tables of Contents'. You may find other helpful books or chapters.
 

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