Astounding wonder [[electronic resource] ] : imagining science and science fiction in interwar America / / John Cheng |
Autore | Cheng John |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction - Periodicals - History Literature and science - United States - History - 20th century Science in popular culture - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-89840-3
0-8122-0667-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Circulation -- pt. II. Reading -- pt. III. Practice. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463583003321 |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 | ||
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Astounding wonder [[electronic resource] ] : imagining science and science fiction in interwar America / / John Cheng |
Autore | Cheng John |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction - Periodicals - History Literature and science - United States - History - 20th century Science in popular culture - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Cultural Studies Literature |
ISBN |
1-283-89840-3
0-8122-0667-3 |
Classificazione | HU 1818 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Circulation -- pt. II. Reading -- pt. III. Practice. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788680403321 |
Cheng John
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 | ||
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Classical traditions in science fiction / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Collana | Classical Presences |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Science fiction films - History and criticism Science fiction television programs - History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in literature Classical literature - Influence Civilization, Ancient - Influences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-998841-2
0-19-998843-9 0-19-998842-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
6 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 13 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463617803321 |
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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Classical traditions in science fiction / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Collana | Classical Presences |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Science fiction films - History and criticism Science fiction television programs - History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in literature Classical literature - Influence Civilization, Ancient - Influences |
ISBN |
0-19-998841-2
0-19-998843-9 0-19-998842-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
6 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 13 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788034203321 |
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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Classical traditions in science fiction / / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Collana | Classical Presences |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Science fiction films - History and criticism Science fiction television programs - History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in literature Classical literature - Influence Civilization, Ancient - Influences |
ISBN |
0-19-998841-2
0-19-998843-9 0-19-998842-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
6 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 13 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808237403321 |
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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Do metaphors dream of literal sleep? [[electronic resource] ] : a science-fictional theory of representation / / Seo-Young Chu |
Autore | Chu Seo-Young <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and technology - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Literary form |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-05922-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The globalized world -- Cyberspace in the 1990s -- War trauma -- Postmemory han -- Robot rights. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460341403321 |
Chu Seo-Young <1978->
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 | ||
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Do metaphors dream of literal sleep? [[electronic resource] ] : a science-fictional theory of representation / / Seo-Young Chu |
Autore | Chu Seo-Young <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and technology - United States - History - 20th century Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Literary form |
ISBN | 0-674-26265-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The globalized world -- Cyberspace in the 1990s -- War trauma -- Postmemory han -- Robot rights. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789802903321 |
Chu Seo-Young <1978->
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 | ||
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Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction / Chris Pak |
Autore | Pak Chris |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 813/.0876209 |
Collana | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies |
Soggetto topico |
Science and state
Planets - Environmental engineering Environmentalism Science fiction Space colonies in literature Environmentalism in literature Science fiction - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-78694-542-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : terraforming : engineering imaginary environments -- Landscaping nature's otherness in pre-1960s terraforming and proto-Gaian stories -- The American pastoral and the conquest of space -- Ecology and environmental awareness in 1960s-1970s -- Edging towards an eco-cosmopolitan vision -- Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132493403321 |
Pak Chris
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016 | ||
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