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dc.contributor.authorrickels, laurence
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T14:26:12Z
dc.date.available2021-02-10T14:26:12Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.submitted2020-06-23T14:50:28Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39877
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35410
dc.description.abstract"Critique of Fantasy, Vol. 1: Between a Crypt and a Date Mark addresses both the style or genre of fantasy and the mental faculty, long the hot property of philosophical ethics. Freud passed it along in his 1907 essay on the poetics of daydreaming when he addressed omnipotent wish fantasy as the source and resource of the aspirations and resolutions of art, which, however, the artwork can never look back at or acknowledge. By grounding his genre in the one fantasy that is true, the Gospel, J.R.R. Tolkien obviated and made obvious the ethical mandate of fantasy’s restraining order. With George Lucas’s Star Wars we entered the borderlands of the fantasy and science fiction genres, a zone resulting from and staggering a contest, which Tolkien inaugurated in the 1930s. The history of this contested borderland marks changes that arose in expectation of what the new media held in store, changes realized (but outside the box of what had been projected) upon the arrival of the unanticipated digital relation, which at last seemed to award the fantasy genre the contest prize. Freud’s notion of the Zeitmarke (datemark), the indelible impress of the present moment that triggered the daydream that denies it, already introduced the import of fantasy's historicization. Science fiction won a second prize that keeps it in the running. No longer bound to projecting the future, the former calling which in light of digitization it flunked, science fiction becomes allegorical and reading in the ruins of its failed predictions illuminates all the date marks and crypts hiding out in the borderlands it traverses with fantasy. To motivate the import of an evolving science fiction genre, Critique of Fantasy makes Gotthard Günther's reflections in the 1950s on American science fiction – as heralding a new metaphysics and a new planetary going on interstellar civilization – a mainstay of its cultural anthropology with B-genres."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMA Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints::JMAF Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersen_US
dc.subject.otherpsychoanalysis
dc.subject.othercultural studies
dc.subject.otherfilm studies
dc.subject.otherscience-fiction
dc.subject.otherfantasy
dc.subject.otherStar Wars
dc.titleCritique of Fantasy, Vol. 1
dc.title.alternativeBetween a Crypt and a Datemark
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21983/P3.0277.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1
oapen.relation.isbn9781950192939
oapen.relation.isbn9781950192922
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.imprintBrainstorm Books
oapen.pages254
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NY


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