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Alternate History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Alternate History

While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.

Representations of the Post/human
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Representations of the Post/human

This work draws together a wide range of literature on contemporary technologies and their ethical implications. It focuses on advances in medical, reproductive, genetic and information technologies.

Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Interviews with the author of Dhalgren; Babel-17; Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand; the Nevéryon cycle; and Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

A Breath of Fresh Eyre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

A Breath of Fresh Eyre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Ever since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre – one of the most popular English novels of all time – has fascinated scholars and a wide reading public alike and has proved a source of inspiration to successive generations of creative writers and artists. There is hardly any other hypotext that has been re-worked in so many adaptations for stage and screen, has inspired so many painters and musicians, and has been so often imitated, re-written, parodied or extended by prequels and sequels. New versions in turn refer to and revise older rewritings or take up suggestions from Brontë scholarship, creating a dense intertextual web. The essays collected in this volume do justice to the variety...

Culture on Tour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Culture on Tour

  • Categories: Art

Analysing a variety of tourist productions, ranging from dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois, Bruner considers the diverse perspectives of various actors, including the tourists, the producers, the natives & the anthropologist himself.

Cultural Studies V2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Cultural Studies V2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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Science-fiction Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Science-fiction Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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World Postmodern Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

World Postmodern Fiction

How do students make sense of the mass of Post-modern literature? Now available for the first time in paperback, this acclaimed volume analyses the common themes and strategies of Post-modern fiction, providing a framework in which it can be properly addressed and understood.

Alternative Futures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Alternative Futures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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