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In Other Worlds
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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2011-10-11
In Other Worlds written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must. Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.
The Last Frontier
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Author : Karl S. Guthke
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
The Last Frontier written by Karl S. Guthke and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Fiction categories.
The existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life has been a subject of debate since the dawn of recorded history. The Last Frontier, originally published in German in 1983 and now available in Helen Atkins's sensitive English translation, traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the seventeenth to the twentieth century and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition.
Imagining Other Worlds
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Author : Nicholas Campion
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-16
Imagining Other Worlds written by Nicholas Campion and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-16 with Astronomy categories.
This anthology presents chapters from astronomers, historians and writers who are inspired by the sky. Its topics range from the representation and exploration of the sky in the arts, architecture and literature, and from the ancient world to the digital age.
The Last Frontier
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Author : Karl S. Guthke
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-11-01
The Last Frontier written by Karl S. Guthke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-11-01 with Science categories.
This book, originally published in Germany in 1983, is a brilliant and detailed thematic study of one of the most haunting problems mankind has ever considered: Are we alone in the universe? The book traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the period from the 17th to the 20th centuries and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition. An engaging, lucid adventure in the history of ideas.
Imagining Other Worlds
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Author : Hilary Evans
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Release Date : 2000-10-01
Imagining Other Worlds written by Hilary Evans and has been published by Chelsea House Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Explores ancient and modern mysteries of the world, asking if extraterrestrial beings could be responsible and why, as well as discussing the belief that many members of the human population are in fact aliens.
Other Worlds
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Author : John H. Timmerman
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1983
Other Worlds written by John H. Timmerman and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fantasy permits its readers a certain distance from pragmatic affairs and offers them a clearer insight into them. It offers a parallel reality, which gives us a renewed awareness of what we already know. Fantasy invites the reader to recover a belief which has been beclouded by knowledge, to renew a faith which has been shattered by fact. As the pace of modern life quickens, the fascination for fantasy literature quickens simultaneously.
Counternarratives
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Author : John Keene
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-17
Counternarratives written by John Keene and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-17 with Fiction categories.
Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.
Imagining Alternatives
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language : en
Publisher: Daanish Books
Release Date : 2012
Imagining Alternatives written by and has been published by Daanish Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Education, Higher categories.
Re Imagining The World
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Author : Yan Wu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-06-18
Re Imagining The World written by Yan Wu and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-18 with Education categories.
(Re)Imagining the world: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine ‘the world’, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds. The chapters in this collection discuss how fiction for children engages with some of the changes brought about by new technologies, information literacy, consumerism, migration, politics, different family structures, cosmopolitanism, new and old monsters. They also invite us to think about how memory shapes our understanding of the past, and how fiction engages our emotions, our capacity to empathise, and our desire to discover, and what the future may hold. The contributors bring different perspectives from education, postcolonial studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, childhood studies, postmodernism, and the social sciences. With a wide coverage of texts from different countries, and scholarly and lively discussions, this collection is itself a testament to the power of the human imagination and the significance of children’s literature in the education of young people.
Wonder And Science
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Author : Mary Baine Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-10
Wonder And Science written by Mary Baine Campbell and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences—particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology—from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography.