LEADER 04417nam 2200769 450 001 9910788034203321 005 20230124191411.0 010 $a0-19-998841-2 010 $a0-19-998843-9 010 $a0-19-998842-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000582974 035 $a(EBL)1884230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001433076 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11888438 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001433076 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11413354 035 $a(PQKB)10539234 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1884230 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1884230 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10995771 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL673980 035 $a(OCoLC)898061652 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000582974 100 $a20141215h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aClassical traditions in science fiction /$fedited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 225 1 $aClassical Presences 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-42698-8 311 $a0-19-022833-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a6 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 Battlestar Galactica; Part IV Ancient Classics for a Future Generation?; 12 Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons's Ilium 327 $a13 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 330 $aFor all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of ""classics"" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection dedicated to the rich study of science fiction's classical heritage, offering a much-needed mappi 410 0$aClassical presences. 606 $aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aScience fiction television programs$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCivilization, Ancient, in literature 606 $aClassical literature$xInfluence 606 $aCivilization, Ancient$xInfluences 615 0$aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aScience fiction television programs$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCivilization, Ancient, in literature. 615 0$aClassical literature$xInfluence. 615 0$aCivilization, Ancient$xInfluences. 676 $a813/.0876209 702 $aRogers$b Brett M. 702 $aStevens$b Benjamin Eldon 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788034203321 996 $aClassical traditions in science fiction$93765499 997 $aUNINA