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More Real Than Reality
The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts

Edited by Donald E. Morse and Csilla Bertha

Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Number 45 MARSHALL B. TYMN, Series Editor

GREENWOOD PRESS New York Westport, Connecticut London

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Publication information: Book title: More Real Than Reality:The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts. Contributors: Donald E. Morse - Editor, Csilla Bertha - Editor. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of publication: New York. Publication year: 1991. Page number: iii.

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Table of contents Table of contents

Title Page iii
Contents ix
Illustrations xiii
Acknowledgments xv
"More Real Than Reality": An Introduction to the Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts 1
Part I ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE AND THE FANTASTIC 13
Myth and the Fantastic: The Example of W. B. Yeats's Plays 17
Siren or Victim: The Mermaid in Irish Legend and Poetry 29
Ghosts in Irish Drama 41
"The Only Jealousy of Emer": Recycling the Elements 67
Part II THE FANTASTIC AND THE IRISH ARTS: THEATER, MUSIC, AND PAINTING 83
Irish Drama and the Fantastic 85
"My Unshatterable Friend of Clay": Fantasy in the Paintings of Jack B. Yeats 97
Péter Egri John Field's Imaginative Achievement: Parallels with Chopin, Shelley, and Turner 111
Part III USES OF THE FANTASTIC BY IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS 133
Interrogating Boundaries: Fantasy in the Plays of J. M. Synge 137
The Uses of the Fantastic in the Later Plays of Sean O'Casey 151
"Fidelity to Failure": Time and the Fantastic in Samuel Beckett's Early Plays 167
Thomas Murphy's Psychological Explorations 179
Part IV THE OCCULT, FANTASY, AND PHANTASMAGORIA IN SWIFT, JOYCE, AND YEATS 191
Lord Dunsany: The Geography of the Gods 211
The Fantastic in James Joyce's Ulysses: Representational Strategies in "Circe" and "Penelope" 219
The Displacement of the Real: From Coleridgean Fancy to Yeats's Vision and Beyond 231
Afterword: Looking Backward, Looking Ahead: The Study of the Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts 247
Select Bibliography on the Fantastic 253
Index 255
About the Editors and Contributors 263

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