Book Description
Learn about one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Ray Bradbury, and his experiences in youth, his passion for writing captivating and unknowingly prophetic stories, and the Cold War era that shaped him.
Author : Joseph Kampff
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627128212
Learn about one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Ray Bradbury, and his experiences in youth, his passion for writing captivating and unknowingly prophetic stories, and the Cold War era that shaped him.
Author : Joseph Kampff
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627128190
Learn about one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Ray Bradbury, and his experiences in youth, his passion for writing captivating and unknowingly prophetic stories, and the Cold War era that shaped him.
Author : Chris York
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786489472
Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn and poorly written publications, notable only for the furor they raised. Contributors to this thoughtful collection, however, demonstrate that these comics constitute complex cultural documents that create a dialogue between mainstream values and alternative beliefs that question or complicate the grand narratives of the era. Close analysis of individual titles, including EC comics, Superman, romance comics, and other, more obscure works, reveals the ways Cold War culture--from atomic anxieties and the nuclear family to communist hysteria and social inequalities--manifests itself in the comic books of the era. By illuminating the complexities of mid-century graphic novels, this study demonstrates that postwar popular culture was far from monolithic in its representation of American values and beliefs.
Author : Mikhail Iossel
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1942658575
Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience “We can’t stop turning the pages of this book.” —Ilya Kaminsky, New York Times Book Review From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, harsh, and enduring lessons. Unsparing and poignant, Mikhail Iossel’s twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood, dissidence and subsequent immigration, are filled with wit and humor even as they describe the daily absurdities of a fickle and often perilous reality.
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307269051
One hundred of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience and his place among the most imaginative and enduring writers of our time. Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet, with its brittle cities and double-mooned sky. Here are the stories that speak of a special nostalgia for Green Town, Illinois, the perfect setting for a seemingly cloudless childhood—except for the unknown terror lurking in the ravine. Here are the Irish stories and the Mexican stories, linked across their separate geographies by Bradbury’s astonishing inventiveness. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories—including “The Veldt” and “The Fog Horn”—perfect for reading under the covers. Read for the first time, these stories become as unshakable as one’s own fantasies. Read again—and again—they reveal new, dazzling facets of the extraordinary art of Ray Bradbury.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 1438131097
Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Ray Bradbury.
Author : Charles Piddock
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433900594
Presents the life and works of the renowned science fiction author and discusses his creative process and the inspiration for such works as "Fahrenheit 451."
Author : Bradley Harris Dowden
Publisher : Bradley Dowden
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780534176884
This book is designed to engage students' interest and promote their writing abilities while teaching them to think critically and creatively. Dowden takes an activist stance on critical thinking, asking students to create and revise arguments rather than simply recognizing and criticizing them. His book emphasizes inductive reasoning and the analysis of individual claims in the beginning, leaving deductive arguments for consideration later in the course.
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451678193
The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.
Author : David Seed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135953821
American Science Fiction--in both literature and film--has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. The end of this era heralds the need for a reassessment of the literary output of the forty-year period since 1945. Working through a series of key texts, American Science Fiction and the Cold War investigates the political inflections put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances. Nuclear holocaust, Russian invasion, and the perceived rise of totalitarianism in American society are key elements in the author's exploration of science fiction narratives that include Fahrenheit 451, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Dr. Strangelove.