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The next issue of Belphégor – the international e-journal on popular literature and media culture - will focus on terror as theme and strategy in science-fiction and the fantastic, on the status of these genres, and on the relationship between the two. Contributions can deal with the study of terror within science-fiction and related literatures, they can comment on the fear of science-fiction amongst some readers, researchers or critics, or can focus on ways and means to escape from this scary logic in academic criticism. Finally, they can deal with the classification / declassification / reclassification of the literary genres in which terror plays a role, within the literary domain and within contemporary media culture.
Some possible themes:
- The devil in literature
- Fantastic literature and the archetypes of horror
- How much horror is too much horror in children's literature
- Frightening readings in science-fiction or the fantastic
- The fear of the other in science fiction of the fantastic
- The literary strategies of horror
- Science-fiction and academic criticism
- The representation of totalitarian societies within the various national versions of science-fiction
- Science-fiction, the fantastic and the literary institutions: who is afraid of whom?
- Vampires in literature
- Travels to the lands of terror in the fantastic novel
- Horror and terror in comics
- Horror and terror in the movies
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