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Alternate history : playing with contingency and necessity / / Kathleen Singles



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Autore: Singles Kathleen <1982-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Alternate history : playing with contingency and necessity / / Kathleen Singles Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina: 809.3/8768
Soggetto topico: Alternative histories (Fiction) - History and criticism
Narration (Rhetoric)
Soggetto non controllato: Future
History
Narrative
Past
Classificazione: EC 6745
Persona (resp. second.): BodeChristoph
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Content -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Poetics of Alternate History -- 3. Case Studies -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.
Titolo autorizzato: Alternate history  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-027247-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910341842003321
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