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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807762303321

Titolo

Jules Verne : narratives of modernity / / edited by Edmund J. Smyth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-78138-060-0

1-84631-340-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; ; 20

Altri autori (Persone)

SmythEdmund J

Disciplina

843.8

843/.8

Soggetti

Science fiction, French - History and criticism

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.