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| ''The Eye of the Giant'' (Togoland)<br> Ada Cardinall, ed. (England, 1890- )|| valign="top" align="right"|53 | | ''The Eye of the Giant'' (Togoland)<br> Ada Cardinall, ed. (England, 1890- )|| valign="top" align="right"|53 | ||
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| − | | ''How I Brought Death Into the World'' ( | + | | ''How I Brought Death Into the World'' (Yoruba, 1953)<br> Amos Tutuola (Nigeria, 1920- )|| valign="top" align="right"|56 |
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| ''The Myth of Actaeon'' (A.D. 2-8)<br> Ovid (Rome, 43 B.C. - A.D. 17)|| valign="top" align="right"|62 | | ''The Myth of Actaeon'' (A.D. 2-8)<br> Ovid (Rome, 43 B.C. - A.D. 17)|| valign="top" align="right"|62 | ||
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* ''The Blackfoot Genesis'' - The publication does not credit an author for this story while while ISFDB credits Blackfoot Myth. | * ''The Blackfoot Genesis'' - The publication does not credit an author for this story while while ISFDB credits Blackfoot Myth. | ||
* ''The Eye of the Giant'' - The publication credits Togoland for this story while while ISFDB credits Togoland Myth. | * ''The Eye of the Giant'' - The publication credits Togoland for this story while while ISFDB credits Togoland Myth. | ||
| − | * ''How I Brought Death Into the World'' - The publication credits Yoruba, 1953 for this story while while ISFDB credits Amos Tutuola. | + | * ''How I Brought Death Into the World'' - The publication credits Yoruba, 1953 for this story while while ISFDB credits Amos Tutuola. While Amos Tutuola work is based on Yoruba folktales the stories are largely his own creation rather than an English interpretation or translation of Yoruba folktales. (source: Wikipedia article on ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palm-Wine_Drinkard The Palm-Wine Drinkard]'' which contains the story ''How I Brought Death Into the World''. |
* ''The Ghost Wife'' - The publication credits Pawnee for this story while while ISFDB credits Pawnee Folktale. | * ''The Ghost Wife'' - The publication credits Pawnee for this story while while ISFDB credits Pawnee Folktale. | ||
* ''The Magic Swan Geese'' - The publication does not credit an author for this story while while ISFDB credits Russian Folktale | * ''The Magic Swan Geese'' - The publication does not credit an author for this story while while ISFDB credits Russian Folktale | ||
* The publication lists the author of ''Axolotl'' as Julio Cortazar. The author is in ISFDB as Julio Cortázar as ISFDB's name matching considers Cortazar and Cortázar to be equivalent and thus a pseudonym can't be added to handle Julio Cortazar. | * The publication lists the author of ''Axolotl'' as Julio Cortazar. The author is in ISFDB as Julio Cortázar as ISFDB's name matching considers Cortazar and Cortázar to be equivalent and thus a pseudonym can't be added to handle Julio Cortazar. | ||
* Prior to verification ISFDB listed ''On Fairy-Stories'' (1939) essay by J. R. R. Tolkien. However, I could not locate this essay in the publication. It's possible records got mixed up with another publication as several stories were missing from ISFDB and needed to be added to get it to match the publication. | * Prior to verification ISFDB listed ''On Fairy-Stories'' (1939) essay by J. R. R. Tolkien. However, I could not locate this essay in the publication. It's possible records got mixed up with another publication as several stories were missing from ISFDB and needed to be added to get it to match the publication. | ||
Revision as of 14:29, 9 June 2008
Bibliographic comments for Eric_S._Rabkin
Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories
This is an academic reference work rather than a pure anthology. Title 35913 on ISFDB.
Note that this Table of Contents has been corrected to match the body of the publications as the TOC, as stated, has minor errors. See the publication notes for Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories for more information.
TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|
| INTRODUCTION | 3 |
| Fantastic Worlds | 3 |
| Organization of the Book | 5 |
| Analyzing the Fantastic | 7 |
| The Fantastic and Fantasy | 16 |
| Exploring These Worlds | 23 |
| THE SOURCES OF THE FANTASTIC | 27 |
| The Sources of the Fantastic | 27 |
| The Need for the Fantastic | 29 |
| Notes on Narrative Structures | 33 |
| Audience Analysis | 36 |
| MYTH | 41 |
| Genesis (King James Version) | 41 |
| The Blackfoot Genesis (1892) George Bird Grinnell, ed. (U.S., 1849-1938) |
47 |
| The Eye of the Giant (Togoland) Ada Cardinall, ed. (England, 1890- ) |
53 |
| How I Brought Death Into the World (Yoruba, 1953) Amos Tutuola (Nigeria, 1920- ) |
56 |
| The Myth of Actaeon (A.D. 2-8) Ovid (Rome, 43 B.C. - A.D. 17) |
62 |
| The Myth of Narcissus Ovid |
66 |
| The Myth of Philomela Ovid |
72 |
| FOLKTALE | 80 |
| The Ghost Wife (Pawnee, 1889) George Bird Grinnell, ed. |
80 |
| The Magic Swan Geese (1855-64) Alexandr Afanas'ev, ed. (Russia, 1826-71) |
82 |
| Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth (Ibo, 1959) Chinua Achebe (Nigeria, 1930- ) |
84 |
| How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox (1880) Joel Chandler Harris (U.S., 1848-1908) |
87 |
| Paul Bunyan on the Columbia (1924) Esther Shephard (U.S., 1891-1975) |
89 |
| FAIRY TALE | 96 |
| Little Red-cap (1812-15) Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm (Germany, 1785-1863; 1786-1859) |
96 |
| The Sleeping Beauty Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm |
100 |
| Hansel and Grethel Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm |
104 |
| The Tinderbox (1835) Hans Christian Andersen (Denmark, 1805-75) |
112 |
| The Tale of Cosmo (1858) George MacDonald (Scotland, 1824-1905) |
120 |
| Leaf by Niggle (1964) J. R. R. Tolkien (England, 1892-1973) |
141 |
| THE DIVERSITY OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE | 161 |
| The Continuum of the Fantastic | 161 |
| The Diversity of Fantastic Literature | 165 |
| The Fantastic and Literary History | 167 |
| The Fantastic and Genre Criticism | 169 |
| FANTASY | 175 |
| Our Ideas of Time (1711) Joseph Addison (England, 1672-1719) |
175 |
| Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 (1809) E. T. A. Hoffmann (Germany, 1776-1822) |
179 |
| The Oval Portrait (1842) Edgar Allan Poe (U.S., 1809-49) |
190 |
| The Garden of Live Flowers (1872) Lewis Carroll (England, 1832-98) |
194 |
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939) James Thurber (U.S., 1894-1961) |
202 |
| The Royal Banquet (1961) Norton Juster (U.S., 1929- ) |
208 |
| HORROR FICTION | 214 |
| The Sandman (1816) E. T. A. Hoffmann |
214 |
| The Black Cat (1843) Edgar Allan Poe |
247 |
| The Picture in the House (1924) H. P. Lovecraft (U.S., 1890-1937) |
257 |
| GHOST STORIES | 266 |
| The Hand (1861) Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Ireland, 1814-73) |
266 |
| The Moonlit Road (1894) Ambrose Bierce (U.S., 1842-1914?) |
274 |
| Lost Hearts (1904) M. R. James (England, 1862-1936) |
284 |
| HEROIC FANTASY | 294 |
| Golden Wings (1856) William Morris (England, 1834-96) |
294 |
| The Sword of Welleran (1908) Lord Dunsany (Ireland, 1878-1957) |
311 |
| The Five Black Swans (1973) Sylvia Townsend Warner (England, 1893-1978) |
325 |
| SCIENCE FICTION | 333 |
| The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) Edgar Allan Poe |
333 |
| The Birthmark (1846) Nathaniel Hawthorne (U.S., 1804-64) |
343 |
| The Star (1955) Arthur C. Clarke (England, 1917- ) |
360 |
| EPICAC (1950) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (U.S., 1922- ) |
372 |
| The Third Level (1952) Jack Finney (U.S., 1911- ) |
380 |
| The Star (1897) H. G. Wells (England, 1866-1946) |
385 |
| MODERN FANTASY | 393 |
| The Judgment (1913) Franz Kafka (Czechoslovakia, 1883-1924) |
399 |
| A Common Confusion (1931 ; written between 1917 and 1922) Franz Kafka |
410 |
| Cockroaches (1934) Bruno Schulz (Poland, 1892-1942) |
411 |
| Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939) Jorge Luís Borges (Argentina, 1899- ) |
415 |
| Axolotl (1967) Julio Cortázar (Argentina, 1914- ) |
424 |
| Pastoral (1954) Tommaso Landolfi (Italy, 1908- ) |
430 |
| All at One Point (1965) Italo Calvino (Italy, 1923- ) |
438 |
| There Is No Such Place as America (1969) Peter Bichsel (Switzerland, 1935- ) |
443 |
| The Piano Player (1963) Donald Barthelme (U.S., 1931- ) |
450 |
| Homage to the San Francisco YMCA (1971) Richard Brautigan (U.S., 1935- ) |
453 |
| The Marker (1963) Robert Coover (U.S., 1932- ) |
456 |
| The Zebra Storyteller (1971) Spencer Holst (U.S., 1926- ) |
460 |
| ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 463 |
| Bibliographic Tools | 463 |
| General Theoretical Studies | 464 |
| Specialized Studies | 465 |
| Supplementary Readings | 468 |
| Index | 475 |
Corrections to the Table of Contents
While these corrections are for the trade paperback edition it's believed the hardcover is identical and thus the table of contents above and corrections would apply to both editions.
- The Preface on page xi is signed "E.S.R" but it's clear this is the editor, Eric S. Rabkin.
- The story Ritter Gluck is listed without the sub-title A Recollection from the Year 1809 in the Table of Contents but is listed that way in the body of the publication. Some sources may list this story as just Ritter Gluck.
- The Hand is listed as being on page 265 in the Table of Contents but it starts on page 266.
- The story Lost Hearts (1895) is M. R. James in the Table of Contents and as by M(ontague) R(hodes) James in the body of the book. As M. R. James is the canonical name I left it as M. R. James rather than creating a variant title.
- The story The Sword of Welleran is listed as by Lord Dunsany. The body of the publication lists the same but adds "(Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany)".
- The Table of Contents lists The Star by H. G. Wells on page 365 and The Star by Arthur C. Clarke on page 385. However, these are reversed in the body of the publication with the Arthur C. Clarke story appearing on page 365 and H. G. Wells' on page 385.
- The story The Third Level is listed as by Jack Finney. The body of the publication lists the same but adds "(Pseudonym of Walter Braden Finney)".
- The Table of Contents lists Axolotl as "(1951)". However, the copyright page states the copyright as 1967, 1963 and the publications available in ISFDB support 1967. It's assumed that 1951 is is typo.
ISFDB Notes
As ISFDB is a database entry of records needs to follow a fixed structure that the editors did not need to follow. The following are notes on how ISFDB's recording of the publications differs from what's stated.
- Genesis (King James Version) - The publication does not credit an author for this story while while ISFDB credits "Unknown."
- The Blackfoot Genesis - The publication does not credit an author for this story while while ISFDB credits Blackfoot Myth.
- The Eye of the Giant - The publication credits Togoland for this story while while ISFDB credits Togoland Myth.
- How I Brought Death Into the World - The publication credits Yoruba, 1953 for this story while while ISFDB credits Amos Tutuola. While Amos Tutuola work is based on Yoruba folktales the stories are largely his own creation rather than an English interpretation or translation of Yoruba folktales. (source: Wikipedia article on The Palm-Wine Drinkard which contains the story How I Brought Death Into the World.
- The Ghost Wife - The publication credits Pawnee for this story while while ISFDB credits Pawnee Folktale.
- The Magic Swan Geese - The publication does not credit an author for this story while while ISFDB credits Russian Folktale
- The publication lists the author of Axolotl as Julio Cortazar. The author is in ISFDB as Julio Cortázar as ISFDB's name matching considers Cortazar and Cortázar to be equivalent and thus a pseudonym can't be added to handle Julio Cortazar.
- Prior to verification ISFDB listed On Fairy-Stories (1939) essay by J. R. R. Tolkien. However, I could not locate this essay in the publication. It's possible records got mixed up with another publication as several stories were missing from ISFDB and needed to be added to get it to match the publication.