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Scotland as Science Fiction.
Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide.that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes "progress" through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? "Left behind" by inter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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; About the Editor and Contributors.