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Nonfiction Title:
Foods of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction • [Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature • 14] • nonfiction by Eric S. Rabkin and George E. Slusser and Gary Westfahl [as by Eric S. Rabkin and George Slusser and Gary Westfahl]
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 1 • Of Food, Gods, and Men: The Theory and Practice of Science Fictional Eating • essay by George E. Slusser [as by George Slusser]
- 21 • Eat and Grow Strong: The Super-Natural Power of Forbidden Fruit • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
- 39 • Shamanic Manipulation of Conspecifics: An Analysis of the Prehistory and Ethnohistory of Hallucinogens and Psychological Legerdemain • essay by Wayne Allen
- 56 • The Solitary Eater in Science Fiction and Horror • essay by George E. Slusser [as by George Slusser]
- 76 • Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom: Bad Medicine • essay by Andrew Gordon
- 86 • Watching the Forbidden Feast: Monstrous Apetites, Secret Meals, and Spectatorial Pleasures in Cocteau, Rice, and Butler • essay by Stephanie Barbé Hammer?Stephanie Barbe Hammer[as by Stephanie Hammer]
- 97 • The Fine Reality of Hunger Satisfied: Food and Desire in C. S. Lewis's Perelandra • essay by Susan J. Navarette
- 117 • Sitting Down to the Sacramental Feast: Food and Cultural Diversity in The Lord of the Rings • [Middle Earth Universe non-fiction] • essay by Jonathan D. Langford [as by Jonathan Langford]
- 142 • Cannibalism in Science Fiction • essay by Paul K. Alkon [as by Paul Alkon]
- 160 • Consuming Horror: Richard Bachman's Thinner, Stephen King's Dark Half, or, Just Desserts • essay by Sharon Delmendo
- 172 • Eating Your Way to the Top: Social Darwinism in SF • essay by Peter Fitting
- 188 • Utopia and the Art of the Visceral Response • essay by Brett Cooke
- 200 • Alimentary, My Dear Watson: Food and Eating in Scientific and Mystery Fiction • essay by Frank McConnell
- 213 • For Tomorrow We Dine: The Sad Gourmet at the Scienticafé • essay by Gary Westfahl
- 224 • Ain't No Fiber in Cyberspace: A Metynomic Menu for a Paratactic Potpourri • essay by Brooks Landon
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