Classical traditions in science fiction /
For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of'classics'is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts wh...
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina Řečtina, starověká (do 1453) |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Edice: | Classical presences
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| On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
| Příbuzné jednotky: | Tištěná verze::
Classical traditions in science fiction |
Obsah:
- Introduction: The past is an undiscovered country / Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens
- The lunar setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, science fiction's missing link / Dean Swinford
- Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jesse Weiner
- Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth / Benjamin Eldon Stevens
- Mr. Lucian in suburbia : links between the True history and the First men in the moon / Antony Keen
- A complex Oedipus : the tragedy of Edward Morbius / Gregory S. Bucher
- Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz, the great year, and the ages of man / Erik Grayson
- Time and self-referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune / Joel P. Christensen
- Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael
- Moral and mortal in Star trek : the original series / George Kovacs
- Hybrids and homecomings in the Odyssey and Alien resurrection / Brett M. Rogers
- Classical antiquity and western identity in Battlestar Galactica / Vincent Tomasso
- Revised Iliadic epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium / Gaël Grobéty
- Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins
- Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / C.W. Marshall
- Suggestions for further reading and viewing / Robert W. Cape, Jr.