A Critical Edition Of The War Of The Worlds

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029961888

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A Critical Edition of the War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells Pdf

What is t first believed to be falling stars or harmless meteorites turns out to be cylindrical Martian ships filled with nightmarish, tentacled invaders and their robotic war machines. When curious Englanders come to inspect the massive containers imbedded in the still-smoking countryside, metallic appendages emerge from the pits to kill every living thing in their path with strange heat rays. Then as the surrounding townships slowly devolve into chaos, the Martians begin constructing giant tripod war machines to track down and kill--or capture-- as many of the human "inferior animals" as possible. The nameless narrator, trapped in a house almost completely crushed by the impact of a starship, watches in horror as the seemingly unstoppable Martians build their mechanical armies, kill hundreds with poisonous gas-- and begin snacking on capture humans!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The War of the Worlds by Anonim Pdf

Author : H G Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1673164811

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The War of the Worlds by H G Wells Pdf

The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. The 1938 radio broadcast caused public outcry against the episode, as many listeners believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress, a notable example of mass hysteria.

Author : Peter J. Beck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474229890

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The War of the Worlds by Peter J. Beck Pdf

First published in 1897, H.G. Wells's alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century. Chronicling the novel's contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book is a complete biography of the life – and the afterlives – of The War of the Worlds. Exploring the original text's compelling sense of place and vivid recreation of Wells's Woking home and the concerns of fin-de-siécle Britain, the book goes on to chart the novel's immediate international impact. Starting with the initial serialisations in US newspapers, Peter Beck goes on to examine Orson Welles's legendary 1938 radio adaptation, TV and film adaptations from George Pal to Steven Spielberg, Jeff Wayne's rock opera and the numerous other works that have taken their inspiration from Wells's original. Drawing on new archival research, this is a comprehensive account of the continuing impact of The War of the Worlds.

Author : H G Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798730539709

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The War of the Worlds Illustrated by H G Wells Pdf

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.

Author : Charles E. Gannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742568716

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Rumors of War and Infernal Machines by Charles E. Gannon Pdf

This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating exploration of how fictional speculations on emergent or imaginary military technologies profoundly influence the political agendas and actions of modern superpower states. Gannon convincingly demonstrates that military fiction anticipated and even influenced the evolution of the tank, the development of the airplane, and also the bitter political battles within Britain's War Office and the Admiralty. In the United States, future-fictions and Cold-War thrillers were an officially acknowledged factor in the Pentagon's research and development agendas, and often gave rise_and shape_to the nation's strategic development of technologies as diverse as automation, atomic weaponry, aerospace vehicles, and the Strategic Defense Initiative ('Star Wars'). His book reveals a striking relationship between the increasing political influence of speculative military fiction and the parallel rise of superpower states and their technocentric ideologies. With its detailed political, historical, and literary analysis of U.S. and British fascination with hi-tech warfare, this lively and revealing study will appeal to students, literary and cultural scholars, military and history enthusiasts, and general readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004361119

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Art and Science in Word and Image by Anonim Pdf

Art and Science in Word and Image explores how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently across art, literature and the sciences, focusing on engagements with natural forms and forces, and other fields of knowledge across a spectrum of creative media.

Author : Patrick Parrinder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780853235743

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Learning from Other Worlds by Patrick Parrinder Pdf

A collection of new essays on science fiction and utopian literature honouring the work of Darko Suvin, the scholar and literary theorist who co-founded the journal Science-Fiction Studies in 1973. The title of this volume attempts to convey the essence of ‘cognitive estrangement’ in relation to SF and utopia: that by imagining strange worlds we learn to see our own world in a new perspective. The contributors have all been influenced by Darko Suvin’s belief that the double movement of estrangement and cognition reflects deep structures of human storytelling. Learning from otherness is as natural and inevitable a process as the instinct for imitation and representation that Aristotle described in his Poetics. Though written from varying perspectives, the essays in Learning from Other Worlds pay tribute to the intellectual and personal inspiration of Darko Suvin to whom the essays are dedicated.

Author : Carl Darryl Malmgren
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0253336457

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Worlds Apart by Carl Darryl Malmgren Pdf

"[Malmgren] succeeds in formulating a typology of science fiction that will become a standard reference for some years to come." —Choice " . . . the most intelligently organized and effectively argued general study of SF that I have ever read." —Rob Latham, SFRA Review " . . . required reading for its evenhanded overview of so much of the previous critical/theoretical material devoted to science fiction." —American Book Review Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction by examining the worlds of science fiction and the discourse which inscribes them. Malmgren identifies the basic science fiction types, including alien encounters, alternate societies and worlds, and fantasy, and examines the role of the reader in concretizing and interpreting these science fiction worlds.

Author : David Herman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262533775

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Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind by David Herman Pdf

An transdisciplinary exploration of narrative not just as a target for interpretation but also as a means for making sense of experience itself. With Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences. The book as a whole centers on two questions: How do people make sense of stories? And: How do people use stories to make sense of the world? Examining narratives from different periods and across multiple media and genres, Herman shows how traditions of narrative research can help shape ways of formulating and addressing questions about intelligent activity, and vice versa. Using case studies that range from Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to sequences from The Incredible Hulk comics to narratives told in everyday interaction, Herman considers storytelling both as a target for interpretation and as a resource for making sense of experience itself. In doing so, he puts ideas from narrative scholarship into dialogue with such fields as psycholinguistics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive, social, and ecological psychology. After exploring ways in which interpreters of stories can use textual cues to build narrative worlds, or storyworlds, Herman investigates how this process of narrative worldmaking in turn supports efforts to understand—and engage with—the conduct of persons, among other aspects of lived experience.

Author : Matthew David Goodwin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978815124

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The Latinx Files by Matthew David Goodwin Pdf

In The Latinx Files, Matthew David Goodwin traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in the science fiction genre. The book argues that the space alien is a vital Latinx figure preserving Latinx cultures by activating the myriad possible constructions of the space alien to represent race and migration in the popular imagination. The works discussed in this book, including those of H.G. Wells, Gloria Anzaldúa, Junot Diaz, André M. Carrington, and many others, often explicitly reject the derogatory correlation of the space alien and Latinxs, while at other times, they contain space aliens that function as a source of either enlightenment or horror for Latinx communities. Throughout this nuanced analysis, The Latinx Files demonstrates how the character of the space alien has been significant to Latinx communities and has great potential for future writers and artists.

Author : Rainer Eisfeld
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783866495364

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Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled by Rainer Eisfeld Pdf

This ground breaking volume offers a range of alternative approaches to political science, highlighting problems too rarely confronted by “mainstream” political scientists. Ranging from Gunfighter Sagas to the changing faces of an imaginary Mars, the innovative chapters introduce whole new ways of rethinking politics, stirring up the all too conventional ways of the discipline. “Klaus von Beyme, one of the most erudite members of our profession, in his introduction conclusively demonstrates the book’s crossdisciplinary merits. I believe this valuable work will be a powerful boost to an international, comparatively informed, pluralist political science.” Theodore J. Lowi (Cornell University), former President, International Political Science Association

Author : Patrick Parrinder
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815626916

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Shadows of the Future by Patrick Parrinder Pdf

Critical study of Wells' science fiction.

Author : Don G. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476611167

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H.G. Wells on Film by Don G. Smith Pdf

One of the most influential thinkers of his era, H.G. Wells is primarily known for his science fiction writings that looked ahead in time to teach and warn. These novels and stories inspired many filmmakers to bring his visions (if often greatly altered or misfocused) to life on screen. He himself wrote screenplays and closely supervised the production of some of his work. This book is a study of every theatrically released film from 1909 to 1997 that is based, even loosely, on the writings of H.G. Wells, including The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of the Gods and The Empire of the Ants, to name a few. For each film, the author discusses the circumstances surrounding its creation, its plot, how it compares with the literary work, its production and marketing, and its strengths and weaknesses based on aesthetic qualities.

Author : Robert Stam,Alessandra Raengo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780470999110

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A Companion to Literature and Film by Robert Stam,Alessandra Raengo Pdf

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them. 25 essays by international experts cover the most important topics in the study of literature and film adaptations. Covers a wide variety of topics, including cultural, thematic, theoretical, and genre issues Discusses film adaptations from the birth of cinema to the present day Explores a diverse range of titles and genres, including film noir, biblical epics, and Italian and Chinese cinema