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The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2019-10-04
ISBN 13 : 1476638519
Pages : 311 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (638 downloads)

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Download The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s PDF Format Full Free by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors. Included are in-depth studies of key texts that contributed to science fiction's growth, including Philip Francis Nowlan's first Buck Rogers story, the first published stories of A. E. van Vogt, and the early juveniles of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.

Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2021-07-31
ISBN 13 : 1440866171
Pages : 766 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (866 downloads)

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Download Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes] PDF Format Full Free by Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides high school and undergraduate students, and other interested readers, with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field. Provides readers with information about written science fiction in all its forms—novels, stories, plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels Includes original interviews with major writers like Ted Chiang, Samuel R. Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Connie Willis that are not available elsewhere Features numerous sidebars with additional data about various subjects and key passages from several classic works Includes hundreds of bibliographies of sources that provide additional information on various specific topics and the genre of science fiction as a whole

The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine

Author : Tim Lanzendörfer
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-31
ISBN 13 : 1000513130
Pages : 470 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (513 downloads)

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Download The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine PDF Format Full Free by Tim Lanzendörfer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing together a wide variety of approaches and concerns. With its distinctive chronological and geographical scope, this volume sheds new light on the possibilities and difficulties of the concept of the literary magazine, balancing a comprehensive overview of key themes and examples with greater attention to new approaches to magazine research. Divided into three main sections, this book offers: • Theory—it investigates definitions and limits of what a literary magazine is and what it does. • History and regionalism—a very broad historical and geographic sweep draws new connections and offers expanded definitions. • Case studies—these range from key modernist little magazines and the popular middlebrow to pulp fiction, comics, and digital ventures, widening the ambit of the literary magazine. The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine offers new and unforeseen cross-connections across the long history of literary periodicals, highlighting the ways in which it allows us to trace such ideas as the “literary” as well as notions of what magazines do in a culture.

The Stuff of Science Fiction

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2022-09-23
ISBN 13 : 1476686599
Pages : 298 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (686 downloads)

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Download The Stuff of Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in science fiction of recent centuries. Based on a packet of original essays that the author assembled for his classes, the book could serve as a supplemental textbook in science fiction classes, but also contains material of interest to science fiction scholars and others devoted to the genre. In some cases, chapters offer thorough surveys of numerous works involving certain subjects, such as imagined vehicles, journeys beneath the Earth and undersea adventures, discovering intriguing patterns in the ways that various writers developed their ideas. When comprehensive coverage of ubiquitous topics such as robots, aliens and the planet Mars is impossible, chapters focus on major themes referencing selected texts. A conclusion discusses other science fiction subjects that were omitted for various reasons, and a bibliography lists additional resources for the study of science fiction in general and the topics of each chapter.

Speculative Modernism

Author : William Gillard
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2021-10-21
ISBN 13 : 1476683336
Pages : 254 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (683 downloads)

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Download Speculative Modernism PDF Format Full Free by William Gillard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers anticipated literary Modernism and blazed alternative literary trails in science, religion, ecology and sociology. Such authors as H.G. Wells and H.P. Lovecraft gained widespread recognition--budding from them, other speculative authors published fascinating tales of individuals trapped in dystopias, of anti-society attitudes, post-apocalyptic worlds and the rapidly expanding knowledge of the limitless universe. This book documents the Gothic and utopian roots of speculative fiction and explores how these authors played a crucial role in shaping the culture of the new century with their darker, more evolved themes.

Faulkner and History

Author : Jay Watson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-03-15
ISBN 13 : 1496810007
Pages : 264 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (81 downloads)

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Download Faulkner and History PDF Format Full Free by Jay Watson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Faulkner remains a historian's writer. A distinguished roster of historians have referenced Faulkner in their published work. They are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of narrative reflections on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist, and dramatist of the fraught enterprise of doing history; and as a historical figure himself, especially following his mid-century emergence as a public intellectual after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of Faulkner's relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures from both the regional and national past; his influence on professional historians; his pursuit of alternate modes of temporal awareness; and the histories of print culture that shaped the production, reception, and criticism of Faulkner's work. Contributors draw on the history of development in the Mississippi Valley, the construction of Confederate memory, the history and curriculum of Harvard University, twentieth-century debates over police brutality and temperance reform, the history of modern childhood, and the literary histories of anti-slavery writing and pulp fiction to illuminate Faulkner's work. Others in the collection explore the meaning of Faulkner's fiction for such professional historians as C. Vann Woodward and Albert Bushnell Hart. In these ways and more, Faulkner and History offers fresh insights into one of the most persistent and long-recognized elements of the Mississippian's artistic vision.

The History of the Science-fiction Magazine

Author : Michael Ashley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
ISBN 13 : 1781382603
Pages : 495 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (382 downloads)

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Download The History of the Science-fiction Magazine PDF Format Full Free by Michael Ashley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines. The period saw the emergence of the cyberpunk movement, and the drive for, what David Hartwell called, 'The Hard SF Renaissance', which was driven from within Britain. Ashley plots the rise of many new authors in both strands: William Gibson, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, John Kessel, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker in cyberpunk, and Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher, Robert Reed, in hard sf. He also shows how the alternative magazines looked to support each other through alliances, which allowed them to share and develop ideas as science-fiction evolved.

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-10-01
ISBN 13 : 0810878844
Pages : 434 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (878 downloads)

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Download Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature PDF Format Full Free by M. Keith Booker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary covers the history of Science Fiction in literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries including significant people; themes; critical issues; and the most significant genres that have formed science fiction literature.

Horror Noire

Author : Robin R. Means Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03
ISBN 13 : 1136942947
Pages : 294 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (942 downloads)

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Download Horror Noire PDF Format Full Free by Robin R. Means Coleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. In Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from 1890's to Present, Robin R. Means Coleman traces the history of notable characterizations of blackness in horror cinema, and examines key levels of black participation on screen and behind the camera. She argues that horror offers a representational space for black people to challenge the more negative, or racist, images seen in other media outlets, and to portray greater diversity within the concept of blackness itself. Horror Noire presents a unique social history of blacks in America through changing images in horror films. Throughout the text, the reader is encouraged to unpack the genre’s racialized imagery, as well as the narratives that make up popular culture’s commentary on race. Offering a comprehensive chronological survey of the genre, this book addresses a full range of black horror films, including mainstream Hollywood fare, as well as art-house films, Blaxploitation films, direct-to-DVD films, and the emerging U.S./hip-hop culture-inspired Nigerian "Nollywood" Black horror films. Horror Noire is, thus, essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how fears and anxieties about race and race relations are made manifest, and often challenged, on the silver screen.

WMF Ikora Metalwork

Author : Carlo Burschel
Publisher : Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 274 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Download WMF Ikora Metalwork PDF Format Full Free by Carlo Burschel and published by Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication draws on sales catalogues and advertising brochures documenting the entire range of Ikora metalwork produced by WMF (W rttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG, Geislingen) from the early 1920s until the 1960s. Even during the first world war, Hugo Debach, who would later become director-general of WMF, took the initiative in having experiments conducted in chemical and thermal tinting of metals. Shortly before 1927 he founded the Neue Kunstgewerbliche Abteilung (NKA: New Division for the Applied Arts) at WMF for upgrading metals. The brilliant colours and the boundless possibilities for design arising from this new technique met with resounding success at the time. Now pieces of Ikora metalwork by WMF are coveted as valuable collectors' items. The name Ikora, borrowed from a plant with brilliantly-hued flowers endemic to South-east Asia and sacred to the goddess Ixora, was designed to express the costly and exclusive quality of this line in metal products. Text in English and German

Twentieth-century American Science-fiction Writers

Author : David Cowart
Publisher :
Release Date : 1981
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 346 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Download Twentieth-century American Science-fiction Writers PDF Format Full Free by David Cowart and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles approximately one hundred American science fiction authors who began writing between 1900 and 1970, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail; and includes eight essays on the genre and its fandom.

Book Review Digest

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 156 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Fictions of Capital

Author : Richard Godden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-04-26
ISBN 13 : 9780521381314
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (521 downloads)

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Download Fictions of Capital PDF Format Full Free by Richard Godden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Capital situates manners and writing about manners in the context of American capitalism between 1880 and 1960, a period that runs from the onset of the sales culture to its war-prompted crisis point in the 1960s. The work of various economic theorists and historians is used to establish two of capitalism's deeper narratives: the plot to accumulate and expand resources (1880 to the First World War), and the plot to ensure reproduction of the expanded resources (preoccupying late capitalism, but already an issue for market leaders in the 1920s). James and Fitzgerald are read as the key novelists of bourgeois affluence, their juxtaposition covers the scope of Incorporation, from the initial accumulation to the problems of how accumulations are to be reproduced. The relation between Fitzgerald and Mailer is explored as a way into new tensions in the growth imperative, resolved though the linking of Destruction, or the permanent arms economy, to Desire, or the ubiquitous shop-window, as a capitalist incentive.

Film Study

Author : Frank Manchel
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 13 : 9780838631867
Pages : 988 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (838 downloads)

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Download Film Study PDF Format Full Free by Frank Manchel and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four volumes of Film Study include a fresh approach to each of the basic categories in the original edition. Volume one examines the film as film; volume two focuses on the thematic approach to film; volume three draws on the history of film; and volume four contains extensive appendices listing film distributors, sources, and historical information as well as an index of authors, titles, and film personalities.

Discontented America

Author : David J. Goldberg
Publisher : JHU Press
Release Date : 1999-02-08
ISBN 13 : 9780801860058
Pages : 230 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (81 downloads)

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Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940

Author : Winifred D. Wandersee
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1981
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Geniuses Together

Author : Humphrey Carpenter
Publisher :
Release Date : 1987
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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