I. Science Fiction: Meliorists and Spenglerians -- II. Historical Fiction: Heroic and Iconoclastic -- III. Survival Fiction: Sustaining and Subversive -- IV. Ethnic Fiction: Moral Consciousness and Ethnic Awareness -- V. Fantasy: Humanist and Religious -- VI. Mystery: Resolved and Confounding -- VII. Contemporary Realism: Therapeutic and Emblematic -- VIII. Animal Stories: Platonic and Darwinian -- IX. Bringing Things Together -- X. So What: Seven Pedagogical Claims
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-160) and index