Scotland as science fiction [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Caroline McCracken-Flesher

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (138 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.08762099411
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism; Science fiction, Scottish - History and criticism; Literature and society - Scotland - History; National characteristics, Scottish, in literature; Literature and history - Scotland
• Soggetto geografico: Scotland In literature
• Altri autori: McCracken-FlesherCaroline
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Scotland's Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark; The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell; Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus; Speculative Nationality: "Stands Scotland Where it Did?" in the Culture of Iain M. Banks; Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light; The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison's Science Fiction Novels ; Nonviolence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer and A Sparrow's FlightPast and Future Language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks; Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's "A Home in Space"; Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey; Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray; Bibliography; Index; About the Editor and Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the ""other side"" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray.
• Titolo autorizzato: Scotland as science fiction
• ISBN: 1-283-30269-1; 9786613302694; 1-61148-375-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781980803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures