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— which the other genres or literary forms cannot provoke’. Todorov, The
Fantastic, p. 92.
25. Neil Cornwell, The Literary Fantastic: From Gothic to Postmodernism
(London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990), p. 27. Jackson is not solely responsible
for this situation. The problem is also attributable to the mingling of
studies of ‘the fantastic’ with studies of ‘fantasy’ in the various volumes of
selected papers from the International Conference on the Fantastic in the
Arts. Academic conferences inevitably attract a diversity of subject matter
and approaches, and it is clear from these collections that the annual
conference has traditionally attracted scholars of the literary ‘fantastic’ as
well as of popular ‘fantasy’. Because a conference paper is necessarily of
economical length, any attempt to differentiate fantasy from the fantastic
is rare in these volumes, a consistent omission which has cumulatively
eroded any sense of fantasy as a distinct genre.
26. See, for example, Manlove, Modern Fantasy; Attebery, The Fantasy
Tradition in American Literature; Timmerman, Other Worlds; Swinfen,
In Defence of Fantasy; and Charlotte Spivack, Merlin’s Daughters: Contemporary
Women Writers of Fantasy (Westport CT: Greenwood Press,
1987).
27. Christopher Stasheff, Her Majesty’s Wizard (New York: Del Rey, 1986),
p. 160.
28. Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, p. 12.
29. See, for example, Ursula Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on
Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Susan Wood (New York: G.P. Putnam’s
Sons, 1979); Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature; Swinfen,
In Defence of Fantasy; Don D. Elgin, The Comedy of the Fantastic:
Ecological Perspectives on the Fantasy Novel (Westport CT: Greenwood
Press, 1985); Robert Reilly, ed., The Transcendent Adventure: Studies
of Religion in Science Fiction/Fantasy (Westport CT: Greenwood Press,
1985); Spivack, Merlin’s Daughters; and Kath Filmer, Scepticism and Hope
in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature (Bowling Green OH: Bowling
Green State University Press, 1992).
30. S. Quinn, ‘Fortune’s Fools’, Weird Tales, July 1938, p. 35.
31. S. Quinn, ‘Uncanonized’, Weird Tales, November 1939, pp. 32–47; S.
Quinn, ‘The Gentle Werewolf’, Weird Tales, July 1940, pp. 76–95.
32. Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairytales and Their
Tellers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1994), p. xiv.
33. Spivack, Merlin’s Daughters, pp. 7–8. Also see Brian Attebery, Strategies of
Fantasy (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992),
p. ix.
34. Elgin, The Comedy of the Fantastic, p. 11.
35. Ibid., p. 16.
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