Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Alternatives) - Hardcover

These thirteen original essays were written specifically for the Third J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held February 2122, 1981, at the University of California, Riverside.Leslie Fiedler sets the tone of this volume by fixing a basic set of coordinatesthat of elitist and popular standards.Those replying to his charge are: Eric S. Rabkin, Professor of English at the University 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 Center of Science Fiction; Joseph Lenz, who teaches English Literature at the University of Michigan, Manifest Destiny: Science Fiction 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 Expectations in "Triton";" "Gary K. Wolfe, who teaches English at Roosevelt University, author of "The Known and the Unknown, " Autoplastic and Alloplastic Adaptations in Science Fiction: Waldo and Desertion; Robert Hunt, an editor with Glencoe Press, Science Fiction for the Age of Inflation: Reading "Atlas Shrugged "in the 1980s; George R. Guffey, Professor of English at UCLA, "Fahrenheit ""451 "and the Cubby-Hole Editors of Ballantine Books; H. Bruce Franklin, Professor 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 California at Davis, and coauthor with Susan Gubar of "Madwoman in the Attic, " Rider Haggard s Heart of Darkness; the aforementioned Susan Gubar, Professor of English at Indiana University, "She "in "Her/and: "Feminism as Fantasy; and George R. Slusser, Curator of the Eaton Collection, Death and the Mirror: Existential Fantasy. "

George E. Slusser is Curator of the Eaton Collection and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside.Eric S. Rabkin is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is author of The Fantastic in Literature.Robert Scholes, coeditor of the volume, is Professor of English and Chairman of the Semiotics Program at Brown University."