Bibliograph

New worlds for old;, the apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature

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New worlds for old;, the apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

New worlds for old;

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

772148

Sub title

the apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature

Table Of Contents

Science fiction -- A prophecy of America, the moon, and mars -- Edgar Allen Poe and the visionary tradition of science fiction -- The left hand of darkness: Ursula K. LeGuin's archetypal "Winter-journey" -- Utopian fantasy as millennial motive and science-fictional motif -- The means and ends of science fiction -- The transformed world of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland -- Solaris and the illegitimate suns of science fiction -- Epoch-eclipse and apocalypse: special "effects" in A Connecticut yankee -- New dimensions of time, space, and literature -- Melville's The confidence-man and the fiction of science -- Vonnegut's Spiral siren call: From Dresden's Lunar vistas to Tralfamadore

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