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Автор: Bourne Craig Название: Time in Fiction ISBN: 0199675317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199675319 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9662.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series-stories involving time travellers, recurring and rewinding time, and foreknowledge of the future? Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne show how we can use the complexities of fictional time to get to the core of the relation between truth in fiction and possibility.
Описание: From reviews of the first edition: "Here's a gem of a book...all peppered with delightful notes from science fiction films, novels, and comics. I can't turn a page without finding a jewel." Clifford Stoll, University of California, Berkeley (author of "The Cuckoo's Egg")From the Foreword by Kip Thorne (author of "Black Holes and Time Warps"):"In browsing this revised edition, I have been struck by the richness and complexity of the tapestry of ideas that Nahin presents. His interweaving of physics and fiction is done adeptly and keeps the book flowing.... Like a good journalist, Nahin simply reports what he sees in the physics and science fiction literature, commenting lucidly and often pointedly on the interconnections, contradictions, and controversies, but leaving it to his readers to form their own final judgments.... Nahin's book, with its complex tapestry of ideas and possibilities, may well remain the most readable and complete treatise on time travel in science and science fiction." Time Machines explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This fascinating and very accessible book covers a variety of topics including the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, space-time, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more. The new edition is substantially enlarged and updated throughout.
Автор: Callahan Название: Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders ISBN: 1137340444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137340443 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Spanish and Portuguese Across Time covers a diverse range of topics with a common focus, on the dynamic nature of languages and the social forces that shape them across time, place, and borders, and demonstrates how linguistic principles can offer productive angles to the study of literature.
Описание: In Hollywood Presents Jules Verne, Brian Taves investigates the indelible mark that the author has left on English-language cinema.
Автор: Baker Brian Название: Science Fiction ISBN: 0230228143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230228146 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3912.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.
A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury America
In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious intellectual and literary history, Greif recovers this lost line of thought to show how it influenced society, politics, and culture before, during, and long after World War II.
During the 1930s and 1940s, fears of the barbarization of humanity energized New York intellectuals, Chicago protoconservatives, European Jewish migr s, and native-born bohemians to seek "re-enlightenment," a new philosophical account of human nature and history. After the war this effort diffused, leading to a rebirth of modern human rights and a new power for the literary arts.
Critics' predictions of a "death of the novel" challenged writers to invest bloodless questions of human nature with flesh and detail. Hemingway, Faulkner, and Richard Wright wrote flawed novels of abstract man. Succeeding them, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, and Thomas Pynchon constituted a new guard who tested philosophical questions against social realities--race, religious faith, and the rise of technology--that kept difference and diversity alive.
By the 1960s, the idea of "universal man" gave way to moral antihumanism, as new sensibilities and social movements transformed what had come before. Greif's reframing of a foundational debate takes us beyond old antagonisms into a new future, and gives a prehistory to the fractures of our own era.
Автор: Canavan Название: The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction ISBN: 1107052467 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107052468 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This Companion explores the relationship between American science fiction and its roots in the American cultural experience. Essays address not only the history of science fiction in America but also the influence and significance of American science fiction throughout media and fan culture.
Автор: George Название: Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature ISBN: 1316623076 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316623077 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the establishment, during the twentieth century, of an Indian national literature. Through close examination of English-language fiction in particular, Rosemary Marangoly George shows how caste, gender and a focus on national principles have had a significant impact on the value attached to literary texts in India.
Автор: Olster Название: Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction ISBN: 0521109809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521109802 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Olster analyzes in detail historical narrative configurations in the works of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Robert Coover and E. L. Doctorow.
Автор: Connolly Название: Nabokov`s Early Fiction ISBN: 0521111420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521111423 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A study of the evolution of Nabokov`s prose fiction from the 1920s to the late 1930s. Focusing on masterpieces such as Lolita, Professor Connolly points to the author`s manipulation of the relationship between self and other.
Автор: Duvall Название: The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 ISBN: 0521196310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521196314 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This essential 2011 reference guide offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. There are chapters on the period`s significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors: Ralph Ellison, Flannery O`Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo.
Автор: Rimmon-kenan, Shlomith (the Hebrew University, Jer Название: Narrative fiction ISBN: 0415280222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415280228 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions.
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