|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910810225503321 |
|
|
Autore |
Thiess Derek <1981-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Relativism, alternate history, and the forgetful reader : reading science fiction and historiography / / Derek Thiess |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
|
©2015 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (175 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Science fiction - History and criticism |
Literature and history |
Postmodernism in literature |
Alternative histories (Fiction) - History and criticism |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Forgetful Reader; 2 Forgetting the Scientific Revolution; 3 Trivial Literature and the Techno-Pagan Nazi; 4 The Da Vinci Code Phenomenon and Orthodoxy; 5 Madness and the Text; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
<span><span>This book channels the speculative power of science fiction to examine the limits of postmodern philosophies of history. By contrasting the questioning nature of science fiction to postmodern philosophy of history, it finds that this postmodernism often engages in a forgetful, even ahistorical, reading of the past. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span> |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|