Autore	Kilgore De Witt Douglas
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina	813/.08762093299
Soggetto topico	SCIENCE Space Science Science fiction, American - History and criticism - United States Literature and science Life on other planets in literature Space and time in literature Astronautics in literature Utopias in literature Future, The, in literature Race in literature English Languages & Literatures American Literature
ISBN	1-283-21113-0 9786613211132 0-8122-0066-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Wonderful Dream -- 1. Knocking on Heaven's Door: David Lasser and the First Conquest of Space -- 2. An Empire in Space: Europe and America as Science Fact -- 3. Building a Space Frontier: Robert A. Heinlein and the American Tradition -- 4. Will There Always Be an England? Arthur C. Clarke's New Eden -- 5. The Domestication of Space: Gerard K. O'Neill's Suburban Diaspora -- 6. Ben Bova: Race, Nation, and Renewal on the High Frontier -- 7. On Mars and Other Heterotopias: A Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457367503321

Autore	Kilgore De Witt Douglas
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina	813/.08762093299
Soggetto topico	SCIENCE Space Science Science fiction, American - History and criticism - United States Literature and science Life on other planets in literature Space and time in literature Astronautics in literature Utopias in literature Future, The, in literature Race in literature English Languages & Literatures American Literature
Soggetto non controllato	American History American Studies Cultural Studies Literature
ISBN	1-283-21113-0 9786613211132 0-8122-0066-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Wonderful Dream -- 1. Knocking on Heaven's Door: David Lasser and the First Conquest of Space -- 2. An Empire in Space: Europe and America as Science Fact -- 3. Building a Space Frontier: Robert A. Heinlein and the American Tradition -- 4. Will There Always Be an England? Arthur C. Clarke's New Eden -- 5. The Domestication of Space: Gerard K. O'Neill's Suburban Diaspora -- 6. Ben Bova: Race, Nation, and Renewal on the High Frontier -- 7. On Mars and Other Heterotopias: A Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910820207903321

Autore	Norris Margot
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Johns Hopkins University Press
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 265 pages :) : illustrations)
Disciplina	809/.93384
Soggetto topico	Psychoanalysis and literature Literature and science Art, Modern - 20th century Mimesis in literature Animals in literature Anthropomorphism Human beings - Animal nature Comparative literature - Themes, motives Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Soggetto non controllato	Literature: history & criticism
ISBN	1-4214-3132-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. Introduction: The biocentric tradition -- 2. Darwin's reading of nature -- 3. Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the problem of mimesis -- 5. Nietzsche's Ecce homo: Behold the beast -- 6. Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. The ontology of D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr -- 9. The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. Conclusion: The biocentric tradition in context.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910524846103321

Autore	Swirski Peter <1963->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Montreal, Que., : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (203 p.)
Disciplina	818/.309
Soggetto topico	Literature and science
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-85856-4 9786612858567 0-7735-6837-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450109203321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill \| Rodopi, , 2019
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (423 pages)
Disciplina	840.9007
Collana	Faux Titre
Soggetto topico	Literature and science Time in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-04-38516-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Matter -- Copyright page -- The Authors -- Introduction / Niklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger -- Rethinking the Order of Time -- From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries / Pascal Duris -- Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830 / Paule Petitier -- Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, “maître Georges” and the Advance of Nature / Claude Blanckaert -- From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of “Development” (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx / Christophe Bouton -- “O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?”: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century / David Schulz -- Atavism and Heredity -- The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Époque / Arnaud Hurel -- Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity / Emmanuel Salanskis -- Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: after a Remark by Bergson in L’Évolution Créatrice / Arnaud François -- Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola’s La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret / Rudolf Behrens -- Nature and Culture -- Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo / Niklas Bender -- Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire / Thomas Klinkert -- Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror / Frank Jäger -- Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time / Edward Bizub -- Poetics of Time -- The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier / Hugues Marchal -- The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac’s Comédie humaine / Sandra Collet -- Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic / Nicolas Wanlin -- Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876) / Yohann Ringuedé -- End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation / Claire Barel-Moisan -- A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences / Stefan Knödler -- Biology and Ideology -- Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola) / Juliette Azoulai -- Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History / Gisèle Séginger -- “Il faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde vive”: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions / Carine Goutaland -- Gobineau’s Heroes Are Ageless / Pierre-Louis Rey -- Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel) / Claude Rétat -- Back Matter -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910511340803321