02639nam 2200613 450 991078790720332120230124191339.00-7391-9618-9(CKB)2670000000578350(EBL)1874263(SSID)ssj0001381855(PQKBManifestationID)12508865(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001381855(PQKBWorkID)11437572(PQKB)10751381(MiAaPQ)EBC1874263(Au-PeEL)EBL1874263(CaPaEBR)ebr11027741(CaONFJC)MIL665398(OCoLC)897378650(EXLCZ)99267000000057835020150310h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRelativism, alternate history, and the forgetful reader reading science fiction and historiography /Derek ThiessLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2015.©20151 online resource (175 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-9617-0 1-322-34116-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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<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>Science fictionHistory and criticismLiterature and historyPostmodernism in literatureAlternative histories (Fiction)History and criticismScience fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and history.Postmodernism in literature.Alternative histories (Fiction)History and criticism.809.3/8762Thiess Derek1981-1483900MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787907203321Relativism, alternate history, and the forgetful reader3702235UNINA