1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791036303321

Autore

Massie Merle <1971->

Titolo

Forest prairie edge : place history in Saskatchewan / / Merle Massie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winnipeg, Manitoba : , : University of Manitoba Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-88755-452-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

577.40971243

Soggetti

Human ecology - Saskatchewan - History

Ecotones - Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan History

Saskatchewan Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Saskatchewan is the anchor and epitome of the 'prairie' provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest. The Canadian penchant for dividing this vast country into easily-understood 'regions' has reduced the Saskatchewan identity to its southern prairie denominator and has distorted cultural and historical interpretations to favor the prairie south. Forest Prairie Edge is a deep-time investigation of the edge land, or ecotone, between the open prairies and boreal forest region of Saskatchewan. Ecotones are transitions from one landscape to another, where social, economic, and cultural practices of different landscapes are blended. Using place history and edge theory, Massie considers the role and importance of the edge ecotone in building a diverse social and economic past that contradicts traditional "prairie" narratives around settlement, economic development, and culture. She offers a refreshing new perspective that overturns long-held assumptions of the prairies and the Canadian west.



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00211240

Autore

RENFER, Werner

Titolo

Hannebarde Blosse ; Le vain travail de voir divers pays / Werner Renfer ;  postface de P.O. Walzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lausanne, : Bibliothèque romande, c1973.  141 p. ; 20 cm  Ed. orig.., :  Mme W. Renfer et Société jurassienne d'émulation

Disciplina

S841

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910983301103321

Autore

March-Russell Paul

Titolo

J. G. Ballard's "Crash" / / by Paul March-Russell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

9783031730948

3031730941

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (95 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon, , 2662-8570

Disciplina

809.05

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Popular culture

Communication in science

Contemporary Literature

Popular Culture

Science Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Crash and Canonicity -- 2. Reading Crash: The Making



of a Modern Myth -- 3. Writing Crash: Modernism/Science Fiction/New Worlds -- 4. Rogue Anthropology: Crash, Surrealism, and The Independent Group -- 5. Vicissitudes of the Body: Cyborgs and Animots -- 6. Moral Pornograopy: "The Woman of the Future" -- 7. Conclusion: Crash and Petromodernity.

Sommario/riassunto

“Paul March-Russell writes with an air of quiet authority and moves around the field of Ballard and New Wave science fiction with evident expertise.” —Roger Luckhurst, Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Crash (1973) by the British novelist, J.G. Ballard, is an iconic yet troubling work of the New Wave in science fiction, primarily associated with the London-based magazine New Worlds, and regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of the genre. This study not only introduces the major critical arguments about the novel but also takes them to task as part of a detailed thesis that reads Crash back into the legacy of modernism in science fiction. This critique makes a strategic intervention into how twentieth-century literary history has been (falsely) divided into modernist and postmodern periods – as well as into divisions between “high” (modernist) literature and “low” popular culture (SF). The book therefore contributes to both SF studies and the expanding field of the New Modernist Studies. Each chapter builds successively upon its predecessor, so as to offer a coherent yet wide-ranging thesis across literature, critical theory, the visual arts, and popular media. Besides offering a critical introduction to the novel and the theories with which it has been read, the book also raises questions of ethics, feminism, and race with which Crash has not usually been identified. The aim is an interdisciplinary text that appeals to a wide variety of readers and provide points of departure for further research. Paul March-Russell is an independent scholar and the current editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction and co-founder of the intersectional feminist imprint Gold SF (Goldsmiths Press). He is one of the UK representatives for the Science Fiction Research Association. He has published on Ballard and the New Wave several times, most notably in Modernism and Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and The Cambridge History of the English Short Story, ed. Dominic Head (2016). His most recent book publication, with Andrew M. Butler, is Rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke: Centenrary Essays (2022).