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Classical traditions in science fiction /
Annotation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Classical presences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The past is an undiscovered country / Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens
- Part I: SF's rosy-fingered dawn. The lunar setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, science fiction's missing link / Dean Swinford ; Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jesse Weiner ; Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth / Benjamin Eldon Stevens ; Mr. Lucian in suburbia : links between the True history and the First men in the moon / Antony Keen
- Part II: SF "classics". A complex Oedipus : the tragedy of Edward Morbius / Gregory S. Bucher ; Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz, the great year, and the ages of man / Erik Grayson ; Time and self-referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune / Joel P. Christensen ; Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael
- Part III: Classics in space. Moral and mortal in Star trek : the original series / George Kovacs ; Hybrids and homecomings in The odyssey and Alien resurrection / Brett M. Rogers ; Classical antiquity and western identity in Battlestar Galactica / Vincent Tomasso
- Part IV: Ancient classics for a future generation? Revised Iliadic epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium / Gaël Grobéty ; Refiguring the Roman Empire in The hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins ; Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / C.W. Marshall
- Suggestions for further reading and viewing / Robert W. Cape, Jr.