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UNINA9910457420103321 |
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Titolo |
Scotland as science fiction [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Caroline McCracken-Flesher |
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Lanham, MD, : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-30269-1 |
9786613302694 |
1-61148-375-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (138 p.) |
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Collana |
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Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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McCracken-FlesherCaroline |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism |
Science fiction, Scottish - History and criticism |
Literature and society - Scotland - History |
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature |
Literature and history - Scotland |
Electronic books. |
Scotland In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Scotland's Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark; The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell; Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus; Speculative Nationality: "Stands Scotland Where it Did?" in the Culture of Iain M. Banks; Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light; The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison's Science Fiction Novels |
Nonviolence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer and A Sparrow's FlightPast and Future Language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks; Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's "A Home in Space"; Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey; Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray; Bibliography; Index; About the Editor and Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the ""other side"" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray. |
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