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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-c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McCracken-Flesher, Caroline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.
Colección:Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Temas:
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.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs écossais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Écosse > Histoire.
Écossais dans la littérature.
Littérature et histoire > Écosse.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Scottish authors
Literature
Literature and history
Literature and society
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature
Science fiction, Scottish
Scotland > In literature.
Écosse > Dans la littérature.
Scotland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scotland's fantastic physics: energy transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark / Cairns Craig
  • The other otherworld: didactic fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell / J. Derrick McClure
  • Allegory and cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A voyage to Arcturus / Ian Duncan
  • Speculative nationality: 'Stands Scotland where it did?' in the Culture of Iain M. Banks / John Garrison
  • Between enlightenment and the end of history: Ken MacLeod's Engines of light / Gavin Miller
  • The cosmic (cosmo)polis in Naomi Mitchison's science fiction novels / Carla Sassi
  • Non-violence, gender, and ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The incomer and A sparrow's flight / Alison Phipps
  • Past and future language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks / John Corbett
  • Scottish poetry as science fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's 'A home in space' / Alan Riach
  • Brave new Scotland: science fiction without stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey / Lisa Harrison
  • Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray / Matthew Wickman.

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