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Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction
E-bok, 2002
1315 kr
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Best known today as the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker also wrote several other works, including The Jewel of Seven Stars, Lady Athlyne, and The Lair of the White Worm. In his exploration of supernatural subjects, such as vampirism, he is clearly a Gothic writer. The fantastic elements of his …
Legacy of Olaf Stapledon
Critical Essays and an Unpublished Manuscript
Av Charles Elkins, Martin Greenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
983 kr
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Although better known today for such classic and influential science fiction novels as Last and First Men, Odd John, Star Maker and Sirius, Olaf Stapledon also wrote eight other science fiction books, seven volumes of philosophy and social criticism, and hundreds of reviews, lectures, and articles. …
Lord Dunsany
Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination
Av S. T. Joshi
Inbunden, 1995
1227 kr
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The Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) has suffered a regrettable decline in critical esteem. Although one of the most popular and critically acclaimed writers of the early 20th century, he seems to have fallen out of fashion with both the Irish critical community and with enthusiasts of fantasy …
Transrealist Fiction
Writing in the Slipstream of Science
E-bok, 2000
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Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly …
Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture
Coming of Age in Fantasyland
E-bok, 2000
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In a constantly changing world, individuals are forever growing to meet the challenges and developments that emerge around them. In contemporary society, technology is at the heart of change. Literature, too, reflects the evolution of culture and increasingly represents and considers technology. …
Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature
E-bok, 1998
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Myth, legend, and folklore have been entrenched in children's literature for several centuries and continue to be popular. Some of the most ancient traditional tales still extant come from the Celtic cultures of France and the British Isles, whose languages are among the oldest in Europe. Among …
Utopian Fantastic
Selected Essays from the Twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
E-bok, 2004
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Utopia forms a major aspect of human desire, one that is as important as religion. Understanding utopia and the ways in which it can collapse into dystopia is crucial in many disciplines. Fantastic literature (including science fiction and fantasy) is the only form of literature that takes …
Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War
American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964
E-bok, 2001
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The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their peak. The American science fiction novels and …
Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas
The Other World in the New World
E-bok, 2001
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The continuing cultural encounters of the Americas, between European and indigenous cultures, and between scientific materialism and premodern supernaturalism, have originated new narrative forms. While supernatural short fiction of the Americas belongs to the broad category of the fantastic, which …
Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization, and the Academy
Av Gary Westfahl, George Slusser
E-bok, 2002
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Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction with disdain and have criticized it for being inferior to other types of literature. But despite the sentiments of these traditionalists, many works of science fiction …
Worlds Enough and Time
Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Av Gary Westfahl, George Slusser m. fl.
E-bok, 2002
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With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or future, reversing the flow of time, or creating alternate universes where Napoleon was triumphant at …
Comedy of the Fantastic
Ecological Perspectives on the Fantasy Novel
Av Don D. Elgin
Inbunden, 1985
820 kr
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Alien to Femininity
Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory
Av Marleen Barr
Inbunden, 1987
1227 kr
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This book offers a first step toward spanning the gap between the writing of male critics of speculative fiction, who do not devote enough attention to the contributions of new female voices to this genre, and feminist critics, who should study a genre that opens all possibilities to women. …
Erotic Universe
Sexuality and Fantastic Literature
Inbunden, 1986
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This comprehensive volume explores the relationship between sex and the fantastic in science fiction and fantasy literature. More than a dozen scholars have contributed essays in which they discuss almost two hundred novels, short stories, tales, plays, poems, myths, and nearly one hundred …
Merlin's Daughters
Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy
Inbunden, 1987
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The relationship between fantasy and the feminine is explored in this compelling study of women writers of the genre. Spivak provides a revisioning of such archetypes as the wizard, the hero, and the dragon, and considers why women writers are currently dominating this field formerly occupied …
Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century
Travel to the Past in Science Fiction
Av Bud Foote
Inbunden, 1990
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The first examples of travel to the past appear early in the nineteenth century, but it was not until the publication of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court that we see a hero taking advantage of a combination of hindsight and advances in technology to build an empire in the …
Welsh Celtic Myth in Modern Fantasy
Inbunden, 1989
739 kr
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This study provides a fascinating look at the various ways in which 20th-century fantasy writers have used Welsh Celtic mythology and folklore in their work. Following the theories formulated by such scholars as John Vickery and Joseph Campbell, the use of Celtic materials by each of the authors is …
Worlds Within Women
Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women
Inbunden, 1986
820 kr
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Focusing on the connection between metaphor and myth, Thelma Shinn provides a methaphoric reading of fantastic literature by women that enables the reader to glimpse its underlying mythic purpose and content. She examines some seventy novels by twenty-four women writers and draws on a rich variety …
Foundations of Science Fiction
A Study in Imagination and Evolution
Inbunden, 1987
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This important contribution to the study of science fiction explores the origins of the basic literary traditions of the genre. Thematic, rather than chronological, organization sets this work apart from previous analyses. The entire range of literary invention within science fiction is explored …
Ellipse of Uncertainty
An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy
Av Lance Olsen
Inbunden, 1987
983 kr
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This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze …
From Satire to Subversion
The Fantasies of James Branch Cabell
Av James Riemer
Inbunden, 1989
983 kr
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During the recent resurgence of interest in Cabell's work, literary scholars have given the fantasy aspect of his novels only cursory consideration, assigning them a place in the popular high fantasy tradition established by William Morris. Riemer shows us a different and more innovative writer …
Lost Worlds Romance
From Dawn Till Dusk
Inbunden, 1992
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During the first part of the nineteenth century, the Lost Worlds Romance, a new literary form, appeared in which an explorer, most often a scientist, made a voyage to what was then considered to be a remote part of the earth where he discovered a fantastic lost world. This book surveys the Lost …
Road to Castle Mount
The Science Fiction of Robert Silverberg
Inbunden, 1999
1227 kr
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One of the most prolific, honored, and widely read science fiction writers, Robert Silverberg has forged a professional career that began in the 1950s and has flourished in succeeding decades. From the very beginning, he was perceived as a promising and potentially brilliant author, and he has …
Strange Shadows
The Uncollected Fiction and Essays of Clark Ashton Smith
Inbunden, 1989
1227 kr
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Strange Shadows opens a window into the dark, visionary worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, whose verbal black magic was a significant force in the American science fiction and fantasy movement of the 1930s. This annotated collection of his previously unpublished works provides a unique opportunity to …
Odd Genre
A Study in Imagination and Evolution
Inbunden, 1994
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This book provides a detailed study of the relationship between science fiction and other genres. After discussing the problems inherent in classifying works according to genre, Pierce notes how science fiction sometimes incorporates plots from other literary forms. He then explores the …
Dark Descent
Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape
Inbunden, 1992
983 kr
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Surely one of America's most popular novelists, Stephen King has only recently begun to receive serious attention from scholars and literary critics. The Dark Descent assembles fifteen illuminating original essays that consider King from a variety of intellectual orientations, addressing the major …
Company of Camelot
Arthurian Characters in Romance and Fantasy
Av Charlott Spivack, Roberta L. Staples
Inbunden, 1994
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This book deals with the eight major figures in the Arthurian legends and how they have been individually represented in literature from its beginnings up to the present day. The characters discussed are: Arthur the king, his queen Guenevere, his wizard Merlin, his half-sister Morgan le Fay, his …
Science Fiction and the Theatre
Inbunden, 1993
1227 kr
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Willingham presents a historical survey of science fiction drama and focusses particularly on the history of attempts to stage science fiction. Little attention has been given to science fiction drama, though numerous science fiction plays exist. This volume gives special attention to works …
Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature
Fiction as Social Criticism
Inbunden, 1994
1633 kr
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While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society marked by suffering caused by human and political evils. This book offers a detailed study of several literary dystopias and analyzes them as social …
