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Bridges to Fantasy
Edited by George E. Slusser Eric S. Rabkin and Robert Scholes, Southern Illinois University Press

Toward a Theory of Fantasy: Essays from the Eaton Conference

One of the most significant aspects of modern culture is the resurgence of interest in fantasy on all levels--as element of human thought, as constant factor in man's social and intellectual environment, as generator of form in art and literature. In all these areas the focus on fantasy as category of investigation promises to lead to important modifications in accepted critical patterns, indeed to reevaluation of the role and purpose of artistic activity itself.

The central problem in the study of fantasy , then, is not merely to define another genre, but to circumscribe the tools and methods needed to approach works of art from a new perspective. Each of the essays presented in this volume seeks to provide a coherent theoretical model for such an approach. The essays fall, roughly, into three groups-- structures, contexts, and themes--which provide general "angles of definition." These are only starting points, however, and each study uses its particular angle not to confine a given text or problem, but rather to open it out. The goal, in each case, is to investigate particular ways in which these categories ultimately interact to produce a work of fantasy . By crisscrossing the literary and artistic landscape, then, from multiple directions, this set of essays provides a beginning to the theo- retical study of a complex and elusive mode.

Bracketing the essays in this volume are two highly personal statements about the nature of fantasy which are diametrically opposed in their approaches: Harold Bloom's intense analysis of a single work, Lindsay Voyage to Arcturus ; and Gary Kern's wide-ranging "search" for a fantasy constant in disparate areas of literature across the ages. The other essays offer a mixture of theoretical stances on a sliding scale between these two poles.