1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782251903321

Autore

Smyth Edmund J

Titolo

Jules Verne [[electronic resource] ] : Narratives of Modernity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-78138-060-0

1-84631-340-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 20 ; ; v.v. 20

Disciplina

843.8

843/.8

Soggetti

Science fiction, French

Verne, Jules

Science fiction, French - History and criticism

Romance fiction

Languages & Literatures

French Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Contributors; 1: Verne, SF, and Modernity: an Introduction; 2: Jules Verne and the French Literary Canon; 3: Jules Verne and the Limitations of Literature; 4: The Fiction of Science, or the Science of Fiction; 5: 'L'Ici-bas' and 'l'Au-delà' ... but Not as they Knew it. Realism, Utopianism and Science Fiction in the Novels of Jules Verne; 6: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Paris: Paris au XXe siècle; 7: Future Past: Myth, Inversion and Regression in Verne's Underground Utopia; 8: Measurement and Mystery in Verne

9: The Science is Fiction: Jules Verne, Raymond Roussel, and Surrealism10: Mysterious Masterpiece; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays reflect the diversity of approaches currently being brought to bear on the writings of Jules Verne.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOMIL0182331

Autore

Resnick, Sidney I.

Titolo

Adventures in stochastic processes / Sidney Resnick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston ; Basel, : Birkhäuser, c1992

Titolo uniforme

Adventures in stochastic processes

ISBN

0817635912

3764335912

Descrizione fisica

XII, 626 p. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

519.23

Soggetti

Processo stocastico

Collocazione

M/S       (AR) 24                 260

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In cop.: The random world of Happy Harry.