This book presents and engages the world building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions....Daugiau...
The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf st...Daugiau...
Fictional languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention)....Daugiau...
This textbook introduces key ideas of religious studies through critical consideration of print and visual media that fall within the general category of science fiction and is a foundational text for students and instructors of religion and science...Daugiau...
In dialogue with posthuman thought, this book argues that Ballards fiction affirms the expansive powers of the human body to create openings in the limited present. This book also positions the transgressive private mythologies of Ballards character...Daugiau...
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction....Daugiau...
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. The sources are accompanied by editorial commentary, and will be of great interest to stude...Daugiau...
This book examines utopian/dystopian fictions enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of seminal texts that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as vital so...Daugiau...
The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future....Daugiau...
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecrafts influence in contemporary times....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2021, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780367855642)
This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master, Stanisaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies....Daugiau...
Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: biofiction, bioimagination, and biodiscourse to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2021, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429345357)
This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures. It brings together diverse ideas from philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, cinema, and social media to explore how heroes are construct...Daugiau...
Connecting William Gibsons relational model of gestalt psychology and imagery with that of the posthuman networked identities found in cyberpunk, the author draws out relations with key cultural moments of the last 40 years: postmodernism, posthuma...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jul-2021, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003058328)
This book presents a systematic study of Indian Womens Science Fiction. It critically analyses the works of Rokeya Shekhawat Hossein, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh....Daugiau...
Written in clear and accessible prose, George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form is a timely work which encourages a reassessment of Martin and his approach to his most famous novels....Daugiau...
This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and childrens fablesas responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860....Daugiau...
This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic...Daugiau...
Ecofeminist Science Fiction explores the origins of human-caused environmental change in the twin oppressions of women and of nature, driven by patriarchal power and ideologies....Daugiau...
By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitabl...Daugiau...
