Science Fiction And Anticipation

Author : Bernard Montoneri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666918144

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Science Fiction and Anticipation by Bernard Montoneri Pdf

Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel presents ten chapters discussing themes related to time travel, utopias, and dystopias in science fiction novels published in America and Europe between the 18th and 20th century. These themes include social progress, freedom and human rights, technological advances, and the issues of ethics, racism, sexism, censorship, and slavery. The contributors analyze novels such as The Year 2440 published in 1771, Paris in the Twentieth Century written by Jules Verne, Blake; or, The Huts of America by Martin Robinson Delany, The Amphibian Man by Alexander Belyaev, Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ashes, Ashes by René Barjavel, The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster, Morel’s Invention by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and writers of Spanish, Argentinian, English, and French fictions such as George Orwell, Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg and Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello. This book notably presents their sources and influence, the accuracy of their predictions, and their relevance in our very unstable world.

Author : Bradford Lyau
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786462179

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The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction by Bradford Lyau Pdf

Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Their imprint Anticipation specialized in science fiction, but mostly eschewed translations from English, preferring instead French work, thus making the imprint an important outlet for native French postwar ideas and aesthetics. This critical text examines in ideological terms eleven writers who published under the Anticipation imprint, revealing the way these writers criticized midcentury notions of progress while adapting and reworking American genre formats.

Author : Will Weaver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062241689

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Memory Boy by Will Weaver Pdf

Ash is still falling from the sky two years after a series of globally devastating volcanic eruptions. Sunlight is as scarce as food, and cities are becoming increasingly violent as people loot and kill in order to maintain their existence. Sixteen-year-old Miles Newell knows that the only chance his family has of surviving is to escape from their Minneapolis suburban home to their cabin in the woods, As the Newells travel the highways on Miles' supreme invention, the Ali Princess, they have high hopes for safety and peace. But as they venture deeper into the wilderness, they begin to realize that it's not only city folk who have changed for the worse.

Author : Scott Westerfeld,Guillaume Fournier (traducteur.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:718588352

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Pretties by Scott Westerfeld,Guillaume Fournier (traducteur.) Pdf

Roman de science-fiction (anticipation).

Author : Paola Iovene
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804791601

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Tales of Futures Past by Paola Iovene Pdf

Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed, by a center of power. By contrast, Tales of Futures Past introduces "anticipation"—the expectations that permeate life as it unfolds—as a lens through which to reexamine the textual, institutional, and experiential aspects of Chinese literary culture from the 1950s to 2011. In doing so, Paola Iovene connects the emergence of new literary genres with changing visions of the future in contemporary China. This book provides a nuanced and dynamic account of the relationship between state discourses, market pressures, and individual writers and texts. It stresses authors' and editors' efforts to redefine what constitutes literature under changing political and economic circumstances. Engaging with questions of translation, temporality, formation of genres, and stylistic change, Iovene mines Chinese science fiction and popular science, puts forward a new interpretation of familiar Chinese avant-garde fiction, and offers close readings of texts that have not yet received any attention in English-language scholarship. Far-ranging in its chronological scope and impressive in its interdisciplinary approach, this book rethinks the legacies of socialism in postsocialist Chinese literary modernity.

Author : Jerome Winter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793621481

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Citizen Science Fiction by Jerome Winter Pdf

Citizen Science Fiction draws on an interdisciplinary swath of literature and media to make the case that the science fiction genre can help rethink the pedagogical use of citizen science as a tool to interrogate our collective civic engagement with science and the incorporation of science into a rigorous, exciting writing-based curriculum. The book revolves around recent developments in specific scientific disciplines, including biology, ecology, computer science, astronomy, and cognitive science. Winter closely studies a range of science-fiction texts and tropes -- such as aliens, robots, clones, mind uploads, galactic empires -- for what they have to contribute to the ongoing scholarly discussion on psychological mindset and mindful argument, reading for probing inquiry and productive uncertainty in the age of the Anthropocene, reading for voice with a view to our digitally dominated future, and reading for threshold concepts in a scientifically driven society.

Author : James E. Gunn,Matthew Candelaria
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 081084902X

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Speculations on Speculation by James E. Gunn,Matthew Candelaria Pdf

Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. This book can be used as a textbook for courses in theory as well as courses in science fiction literature and science fiction writing.

Author : Rob Latham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474248631

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Science Fiction Criticism by Rob Latham Pdf

Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: ·Definitions and boundaries of the genre ·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space' ·Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings ·The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals ·Race and the legacy of colonialism The volume also features annotated guides to further reading on these topics. Includes writings by: Marc Angenot, J.G. Ballard, Damien Broderick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Grace Dillon, Kodwo Eshun, Carl Freedman, Allison de Fren, Hugo Gernsback, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Robert A. Heinlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Gwyneth Jones, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Judith Merril, John B. Michel, Wendy Pearson, John Rieder, Lysa Rivera, Joanna Russ, Mary Shelley, Stephen Hong Sohn, Susan Sontag, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Vernor Vinge, Sherryl Vint, H.G. Wells, David Wittenberg and Lisa Yaszek

Author : Jean Pierre Vernier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:b73022377

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H.G. Wells at the Turn of the Century by Jean Pierre Vernier Pdf

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429905695

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

Author : Ernest N. Emenyonu,Chimalum Nwankwo,Louisa Uchum Egbunike
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847012852

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Speculative & Science Fiction by Ernest N. Emenyonu,Chimalum Nwankwo,Louisa Uchum Egbunike Pdf

"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Discussions around the 'rise' of science-fiction and fantasy have led to a push-back by writers and scholars who have suggested that this is not a new phenomenon in African literature. This collection focuses on the need to recalibrate ways of reading and categorising this grenre of African writing through critical examinations both of classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's oeuvre, as well as more recent fiction from writers including Nnedi Okorafor, Namwali Serpell and Masande Ntshanga."--Back cover.

Author : Patrick Parrinder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136493409

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Science Fiction by Patrick Parrinder Pdf

First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the themes of epic, fable, language, cultures, its sociology, as a romance, and of a working daydream.

Author : Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges,Pasquale Gagliardi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 902723311X

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Narratives We Organize by by Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges,Pasquale Gagliardi Pdf

Topics covered by this title include: structuralist approaches to narrative analysis; poststructural approaches to narrative; genre analysis; and narrating ourselves.

Author : Alice Bell,Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496213075

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Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology by Alice Bell,Marie-Laure Ryan Pdf

The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a source of aesthetic experience in narrative texts. As a theory concerned with the opposition between the actual world that we belong to and possible worlds created by the imagination, possible worlds theory has made significant contributions to narratology. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology updates the field of possible worlds theory and postclassical narratology by developing this theoretical framework further and applying it to a range of contemporary literary narratives. This volume systematically outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the possible worlds approach, provides updated methods for analyzing fictional narrative, and profiles those methods via the analysis of a range of different texts, including contemporary fiction, digital fiction, video games, graphic novels, historical narratives, and dramatic texts. Through the variety of its contributions, including those by three originators of the subject area—Lubomír Doležel, Thomas Pavel, and Marie-Laure Ryan—Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology demonstrates the vitality and versatility of one of the most vibrant strands of contemporary narrative theory.

Author : Caleb Carr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2258055628

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Le tueur de temps by Caleb Carr Pdf

Analyse : Roman de science-fiction (anticipation).