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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2014-03-30
Förlag
McFarland & Co Inc
Medarbetare
Bernardo, Susan M. (ed.), Palumbo, Donald E. (ed.), Sullivan Iii, C. W. (ed.)
Illustrationer
bibliography, index
Dimensioner
229 x 160 x 10 mm
Vikt
272 g
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1
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Paperback
ISBN
9780786475797

Environments in Science Fiction

Essays on Alternative Spaces

av Susan M Bernardo, Donald E Palumbo, C W Sullivan Iii
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-03-30
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The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging, play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses especially on science fiction that includes depictions of the future that include, but move beyond, dystopias and offer us ways to imagine reinventing ourselves and our perspectives; especially our links to and views of new environments. There are ecocritical texts that deal with space/place and science fiction criticism that deals with dystopias but there is no other collection that focuses on the intersection of the two. The essays in this volume treat Shelley's Frankenstein, Capek's War with the Newts, William Morris's News from Nowhere, Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest, Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Marge Piercy's He, She, It, Neal Stephenson's Anathem, Amitav Ghosh's Calcutta Chromosome and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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the books diversity makes it relevant to a wide readership...adds to the field in thought-provoking waysFoundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.

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Susan M. Bernardo teaches science fiction, literary theory and courses in 19th century British Literature at Wagner College, where she is Professor of English. She lives in Glen Gardner, New Jersey. Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He lives in Greenville. C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies.

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Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part One. In the Margins: Recentering Individuals, Societies and Environments Heterotopian Possibilities in Science Fictions by Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Samuel Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin (Lauren J. Lacey) Acceptance of the Marginalized in Marge Piercys He, She, It and Melissa Scotts Trouble and Her Friends (Melanie A. Marotta) Anathems Flows of Power: State Space and Nomadology on a Cloistered Planet (Jonathan P. Lewis) Part Two. Shifting Worlds Through Re-Creation Karel apeks War with the Newts: Deterritorializing Land and Language (Adam Lawrence)64 Mary Shelleys Literary Laboratory: Frankenstein and the Emergence of the Modern Laboratory in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Matthew Hadley) Ecotopian London: Morriss Geography of Conservation (Margaret S. Kennedy) Part Three. Re-Viewing Damaged Worlds Through Quests Underworlds of Despair and Hope in Cormac McCarthys The Road (Justin T. Noetzel) The Silence of the Subaltern: The Rejection of History and Language in Amitav Ghoshs The Calcutta Chromosome (Shayani Bhattacharya) A Case of Terraphilia: Longing for Place and Community in Philip K. Dicks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Susan M. Bernardo) Discursive Transgressions and Ideological Negotiations: From Orwells 1984 to Butlers Parable of the Sower (Keith Elphick) About the Contributors Index

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