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Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia (Ralahine Utopian Studies, Band 15) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 10: Ralahine Utopian Studies

Wegner, Phillip E.

 
9783034307413: Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia (Ralahine Utopian Studies, Band 15)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3034307411 ISBN 13: 9783034307413
Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Shockwaves of Possibility explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. The author contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in SF, but rather is fundamental to its narrative dynamics. Drawing upon a rich array of theory and criticism in SF and utopian studies, the book opens with a global periodizing history that shows the inseparability of SF from developments in other cultural fields. It goes on to examine literature, film, television, comics, and animation in order to demonstrate SF’s unique effectiveness for grappling with the upheavals brought about by globalization. Shockwaves of Possibility proves SF’s vitality in the brave new world of the twenty-first century, as it illuminates the contours of the present and educates our desire for a radically other future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Phillip E. Wegner is the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. He is the author of Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity; Life Between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties; and Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3034307411
ISBN 13 
9783034307413
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Auflage
1
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312
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