Proceedings published by De Gruyter

Theoretical reflections on the fantastic

Helmut W Pesch: Fantasy and intertextuality. Methodological problems in genre typology (7)

Frank Weinreich: The fantastic is not fantastic. On the relationship between fantasy and reality (19)

Henning Kasbohm: The clutter of the rooms. Contribution to the discussion about an operationalizable concept of the fantastic (37)

Uwe Durst: Bounded and Unbounded Wonderful Systems. From Bourgeois to “Magical Realism” (57)

Border crossers of the fantastic

Pamela Steen: Fantastic fictions in everyday conversations (77)

John Walter: On the role of Latin in the fantastic. Harry Potter, Aventuria and Lovecraft (103)

Lucia Traut: The construction of collective imaginary spaces in fantasy role-playing games (123)

Maximilian Vogelmann: Live roleplay and fantasy. Results of a qualitative study at the Kite Festival 2009 (141)

Fantastic in Film and TV

Benedict Marco: visual mazes. The image of the city in the Oshii Mamorus cinema (163)

Aleta Amirée von Holzen: Marvel-lous Masked Men. Dual identities in superhero films (187)

Simon Mirror: The blue wonder. Naturalization, alienation and digital figures in James Cameron's Avatar (203)

Jorg Hartmann: The first spaceship crash in history. George Méliè's films viewed metaphorologically (223)

Anke Woschech: "Bright, shiny futures are overrated anyway." On the change in technology and history semantics in Battlestar Galactica (237)

Francesca Yardenit Albertini: Myth and religiosity in Star Trek (261)

Fantastic Literature: Individual Studies and Reviews

Petra Schrackman: Knowledge as a threshold: urban fantasy for children and young people in media transfer (271)

Martin GE Sternberg: Materiality of characters and materiality of the world in fantasy (287)

Anja Stürzer: The desacralization of the world. "Crypto-Religious Rooms" in The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter (299)

Ink Frost: fairytale forests. The topos forest in European fairy tales and in its modern interpretations (319)

Julia Boog: inside views. Phantasmagorias in Yôko Tawada's The Naked Eye (339)

Hans Harald Mueller: Forms and functions of the fantastic in the work of Arthur Schnitzler and Leo Perutz (355)

Evelyne Jaquelin: Fantastic and wonderful. Goethe's treatment of the "ghostly" in the conversations of German emigrants (363)

Joerg Schoenert: Fantastic from a genre historical point of view. On the constitutional phase of horror and horror novels in German-language fiction around 1800 (381)

Peter Huehn: Horrific family stories. On the plot structure of English Gothic Novels (391)

Jacek Rzeszotnik: Faces of Polish non-realist literature at the beginning of the 21st century (407)

Meret Fehlman: Strange and yet known. The image of Neanderthals in Prehistoric Fiction (423)

Hans Esselborn: The change in German science fiction. From technical science fiction to depicting alternative worlds (443)

The Fantastic-Theory and History

Brian Stableford: The Art and Science of Heterocosmic Creativity (7)

Jan Christoph Meister: "It's not what you see - it's how you see what you see." The Fantastic as an Epistemological Concept (21)

Rene Schallegger: The Nightmares of Politicians. On the Rise of Fantasy Literature from Subcultural to Mass-cultural Phenomenon (29)

Clemens Ruthner: Fantastic Liminality. A Theory Sketch (49)

Visualizing the Fantastic in Our Culture

Marleen S Barr: Fantastic Language/Political Reporting. The Postcolonial SF Illocutionary Force is with us (67)

Markus Oppolzer: Visualizing the Fantastic in Strange Embrace (85)

Christian Lenz: love your zombie Romancing the Undead (103)

Simone Knewitz: God Hates Fangs? Morality, Ideology, and the Domesticated Vampires in American Culture (119)

Paul Beehler: The Semiotics of Sexual Transformation. Ursula and Ariel as Representations of Metamorphosis in The Little Mermaid (139)

Fantastic Genres: Fantasy

Lily Glasner: Taking a Zebra to Vegas. Allegorical Reality in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians Series (155)

Anne Klaus: "Real adventures weren't about Hogwarts and Muggles." Intertextual References in Amanda Hemingway's Sangreal Trilogy (175)

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Agata Zarzycka: On Alien Alders. The "Erl-King" Inspirations in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Sage (187)

Karin Kokorski: "It's magical!" Supernatural Elements in Children's Literature and Young Adults' Fiction (205)

Margaret McMurry: Story Matters. Story and its concept in Tolkien and Pratchett (219)

Wallace T Cleaves II: Grimmerie and Primer. Wicked and Diamond Age as Instructional Texts (233)

Fantastic Genres: Science Fiction

Minwen Huang: The Haunted House of Science Fiction. Modern Ghosts, Crypts, and Technologies (251)

Jacobo Canada: Difference and Resistance in MT Anderson's Feed (271)

Alan Weiss: Disharmony and Dystopia. Music in Classic Dystopian Fiction (285)

Arianna Casali: Facing the End of the World. Margaret Atwood's Post-apocalyptic Science Fiction (295)

Sarah Herbe: Is the Scientist Still Mad? Renegotiations of a Cultural Stereotype in New Hard Science Fiction (311)

Ingo Cornils: Utopian, Dystopian and Subversive Strategies in Recent German Alternate History Fictions (325)

Conference Theme Story

Paul DiFilippo: A Pocketful of Faces (341)