The cross, the plow and the skyline : contemporary science fiction and fantasy and the ecological imagination /
"The apocalyptic, pastoral, and urban traditions have fundamentally shaped Western history and influenced American religion, culture, and politics. This book argues that these traditions have not only been decisive in giving form and substance to classic and modern American literature, but have...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Хэл сонгох: | англи |
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Irvine :
BrownWalker Press,
[2022]
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| Хэвлэл: | Revised and expanded second edition. |
| Онлайн хандалт: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3519787 |
Агуулга:
- Visions of the apocalypse : religion, politics, and science fiction
- Critical political theory and apocalyptic science fiction
- Interlude I : twenty-first century apocalyptic SF/F
- The Machine in the Garden Revisited : American Politics and Literary Pastoralism
- Critical hermeneutics and pastoral science fiction
- Ffin-de-siecle pastoralism and American populism
- Literary responses to the crisis of the 1890s and the populist challenge
- Interlude II : twenty-first century pastoral SF/F
- The telos of the city in social science and history
- Images of the city in contemporary science fiction
- Interlude III : twenty-first century urban SF/F
- The Gaia hypothesis and its shadow : Earth as Gaia and the specter of terra (terror)forming
- The darkness of Gaia : encountering the shadow of self and otherness in inner/outer space
- Interlude IV : the ecological imagination in twenty-first century SF/F.