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Presents a history of the criticism of the imaginary voyage in fictional literature. Also includes an annotated check list of two hundred and fifteen imaginary voyages from 1700-1800.
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 1941
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9780231894555
Presents a history of the criticism of the imaginary voyage in fictional literature. Also includes an annotated check list of two hundred and fifteen imaginary voyages from 1700-1800.
Author : Philip Babcock Gove
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
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Author : Mark J.P. Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136220801
Mark J.P. Wolf’s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worlds—which are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in nature—are compelling objects of inquiry for Media Studies. Chapters touch on: a theoretical analysis of how world-building extends beyond storytelling, the engagement of the audience, and the way worlds are conceptualized and experienced a history of imaginary worlds that follows their development over three millennia from the fictional islands of Homer’s Odyssey to the present internarrative theory examining how narratives set in the same world can interact and relate to one another an examination of transmedial growth and adaptation, and what happens when worlds make the jump between media an analysis of the transauthorial nature of imaginary worlds, the resulting concentric circles of authorship, and related topics of canonicity, participatory worlds, and subcreation’s relationship with divine Creation Building Imaginary Worlds also provides the scholar of imaginary worlds with a glossary of terms and a detailed timeline that spans three millennia and more than 1,400 imaginary worlds, listing their names, creators, and the works in which they first appeared.
Author : Marshall B. Tymn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100063907X
Academic attention to science fiction and fantasy began in 1958, when the Modern Language Association scheduled its first seminar on science fiction at its New York meeting. Over the years science fiction emerged as a popular subject that achieved critical attention and acceptance as an academic discipline. A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies, originally published in 1977, is designed to provide the reader – whether they be scholar, teacher, librarian, or fan – with a comprehensive listing of the important research tools that have been published in the United States and England through 1976. The volume contains over 400 selected, annotated entries covering both general and specialized sources, including general surveys, histories, genre studies, author studies, bibliographies, and indices, which span the entire range of science fiction and fantasy scholarship.
Author : Henry George Hahn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810817869
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Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1519 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0429685262
Reissuing five works originally published between 1937 and 1991, this collection contains books addressing the subject of time, from a mostly philosophic point of view but also of interest to those in the science and mathematics worlds. These texts are brought back into print in this small set of works addressing how we think about time, the history of the philosophy of time, the measurement of time, theories of relativity and discussions of the wider thinking about time and space, among other aspects. One volume is a thorough bibliography collating references on the subject of time across many disciplines.
Author : Firdous Azim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134866089
In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the universality of the coherent and consistent subject which found expression in the novels of the eighteenth century, Azim demonstrtes how certain categories: women and people of colour, were silenced and excluded. The Colonial Rise of the Novel makes an important and provocative contribution to post-colonial and feminist criticism. It will be essential reading for all teachers and students of English literature, women's studies, and post-colonial criticism.
Author : Michelle Burnham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019257759X
Transoceanic America offers a new approach to American literature by emphasizing the material and conceptual interconnectedness of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. These oceans were tied together economically, textually, and politically, through such genres as maritime travel writing, mathematical and navigational schoolbooks, and the relatively new genre of the novel. Especially during the age of revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, long-distance transoceanic travel required calculating and managing risk in the interest of profit. The result was the emergence of a newly suspenseful form of narrative that came to characterize capitalist investment, political revolution, and novelistic plot. The calculus of risk that drove this expectationist narrative also concealed violence against vulnerable bodies on ships and shorelines around the world. A transoceanic American literary and cultural history requires new non-linear narratives to tell the story of this global context and to recognize its often forgotten textual archive.
Author : Frédérique Aït-Touati
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226011240
In today’s academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so distinct. Just as the natural philosophers of the era were discovering in and adopting from literature new strategies and techniques for their discourse, so too were poets and storytellers finding inspiration in natural philosophy, particularly in astronomy. A work that speaks to the history of science and literary studies, Fictions of the Cosmos explores the evolving relationship that ensued between fiction and astronomical authority. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, Frédérique Aït-Touati shows that it was through the telling of stories—such as through accounts of celestial journeys—that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Aït-Touati draws from both cosmological treatises and fictions of travel and knowledge, as well as personal correspondences, drawings, and instruments, to emphasize the multiple borrowings between scientific and literary discourses. This volume sheds new light on the practices of scientific invention, experimentation, and hypothesis formation by situating them according to their fictional or factual tendencies.
Author : Katherine Murphy Dickson
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Aeronautics
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