Preface,
Contents
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SABINE COELSCH-FOISNER
Metamorphic Bodies in Culture and Fantasy,
with a Reading of A. S. Byatťs Short Fiction..........................................1
MILADA FRANKOVÁ
Fantastic Female Figures in the Works of
Fay Weldon, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Marina Warner............15
KLÁRA KOLÍNSKÁ
The Colour of Skin and other (T)Issues:
Bodily Transformations in Howard O'Hagan's Tay John...........................23
MARKUS OPPOLZER "I am, therefore I think": Postmodern British Gothic and the Construction of the Self.......................33
SARAH HERBE
The Dehumanised Figure in Roald Dahľs Short Fiction............................47
CHRISTINA GRABNER
Human, Semi-Human, Non-Human and Super-Human Selves in Flux:
Morphological Pluralism in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings............57
KATEŘINA PRAJZNEROVÁ
Fantastic Landscapes and Chimeric Bodies
in Sabine Ulibarri's Fairy Fiction......................................................69
ELISABETH SCHOBER
Solve et Coagula:
The Role of Identity in Postmodern British Romance..............................77
MARKUS NIEDERWIMMER
Queer Tendencies in (Post-)Modern Anglophone Fantasy:
Orlando, The Passion of New Eve, and Middlesex..................................87
TOMÁŠ POSPÍŠIL
Films by David Cronenberg and the Fantastic Postmodern Body.................99
MICHAELA SCHWARZBAUER
The Human Figure in Hans Werner Henze's Opera Der junge Lord............107