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UNINA9910786346403321 |
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Pasternak Boris Leonidovich <1890-1960.> |
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Boris Pasternak [[electronic resource] ] : family correspondence, 1921-1960 / / translated and with an introduction by Nicolas Pasternak Slater ; edited by Maya Slater ; foreword by Lazar Fleishman |
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Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, c2010 |
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0-8179-1025-5 |
0-8179-1026-3 |
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1 online resource (497 p.) |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 578 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SlaterMaya |
SlaterNicolas Pasternak |
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Authors, Russian - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Translator''s Note; Acknowledgments; Genealogical Charts; Chapter One: 1921-1925; Photo Section I (following page 40); Chapter Two: 1926; Chapter Three: 1926-1927; Chapter Four: 1927-1928; Chapter Five: 1928-1929; Chapter Six: 1930; Chapter Seven: 1931-1932; Photo Section II (following page 224); Chapter Eight: 1932-1933; Chapter Nine: 1933-1935; Chapter Ten: 1935-1936; Photo Section III (following page 304); Chapter Eleven: 1936-1939; Chapter Twelve: 1939-1941; Chapter Thirteen: 1941-1948; Chapter Fourteen: 1956-1958 |
Chapter Fifteen: 1958-1960Illustration Sources; Index |
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UNINA9910808237403321 |
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Classical traditions in science fiction / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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0-19-998841-2 |
0-19-998843-9 |
0-19-998842-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Science fiction, American - History and criticism |
Science fiction, English - History and criticism |
Science fiction films - History and criticism |
Science fiction television programs - History and criticism |
Civilization, Ancient, in literature |
Classical literature - Influence |
Civilization, Ancient - Influences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Series; Classical Traditions in Science Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Past Is an Undiscovered Country; Part I SF's Rosy-Fingered Dawn; 1 The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, Science Fiction's Missing Link; 2 Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; 3 Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; 4 Mr. Lucian in Suburbia: Links Between the True History and The First Men in the Moon; Part II SF "Classics"; 5 A Complex Oedipus: The Tragedy of Edward Morbius |
6 Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Great Year, and the Ages of Man7 Time and Self-Referentiality in the Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune; 8 Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Classical Myth and Blade Runner; Part III Classics in Space; 9 Moral and Mortal in Star Trek: The Original Series; 10 Hybrids and Homecomings in the Odyssey and Alien Resurrection; 11 Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in |
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Battlestar Galactica; Part IV Ancient Classics for a Future Generation?; 12 Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons's Ilium |
13 Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy14 Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the End of Antiquity; Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of ""classics"" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection dedicated to the rich study of science fiction's classical heritage, offering a much-needed mappi |
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