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Arthur C. Clarke

By: Eric S. Rabkin

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Arthur C. Clarke

By: Eric S. Rabkin

The second edition of Eric S. Rabkin's study of the life and work of Arthur C. Clarke.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0916732215

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9780916732219

The Fantastic in Literature

By: Eric S. Rabkin

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What exactly is the fantastic? In the twentieth-century world, our notions of what is impossible are assaulted every day. To define the nature of fantasy and the fantastic, Eric S. Rabkin considers its role in fairy tales, science fiction, detective stories, and religious allegory, as well as in traditional literature. The examples he studies range from Grimm's fairy tales to Agatha Christie, from Childhood's End to the novels of Henry James, from Voltaire to Robbe-Grillet to A Canticle for Leiboivitz. By analyzing different works of literature, the author shows that the fantastic depends on a reversal of the ground rules of a narrative world. This reversal signals most commonly a psychological escape, often from boredom, to an unknown world secretly yearned for, whose order, although reversed, bears a precise relation to reality. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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248

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Princeton University Press

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1400870798

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9781400870790

Mars

A Tour of the Human Imagination

By: Eric S. Rabkin

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Mars

A Tour of the Human Imagination

By: Eric S. Rabkin

What is Mars? From the ancients to the present, we have imagined Mars repeatedly and studied it longingly. As scientific knowledge of Mars has changed, so has the cultural imagination of this celestial neighbors. The earth-centered beginnings of astronomy connected the blood-red planet with the God of War. The Copernican Revolution and a later, simple mistranslation from Italian supported fantastic visions of distant Mars as the abode of life variously bizarre, ideal, or malignant. In the work of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, in books, films, radio, and television, Mars reflected not only eternal hopes and fears but then-current political realities. In recent years, NASA-fication has brought Mars home, imagining the Red Planet almost as an eighth continent of Earth, a candidate for exploration and exploitation both in fiction and in fact. Rabkin weaves a chronological tale of many threads, including mythology, astrology, astronomy, literary criticism, and cultural studies.

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244

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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0275987191

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9780275987190

Science Fiction

History, Science, Vision

By: Robert Scholes,Eric S. Rabkin

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Science Fiction

History, Science, Vision

By: Robert Scholes,Eric S. Rabkin

This is both an introduction to an overwhelming popular literary genre and a stimulating analysis of its literary, socal, and scientific elements. Contains detailed discussions of the most significant writers,a nd of ten representative novels from 1818 to 1976.

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272

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195021746

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9780195021745

Partners in Wonder

Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965

By: Eric Leif Davin

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Partners in Wonder

Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965

By: Eric Leif Davin

Partners in Wonder' explores our knowledge of women and science fiction between 1936 and 1965. It describes the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced, one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts.

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452

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Lexington Books

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0739112678

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9780739112670

Stories

An Anthology and an Introduction

By: Eric S. Rabkin

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Stories

An Anthology and an Introduction

By: Eric S. Rabkin

Stories contains a variety of extremely high quality narratives and makes their interconnections and study accessible. In comparison to similar anthologies, Stories has more total pieces (137), and more lengthy novellas (5). It presents graphic narratives, verse narratives, Bible stories, fairy tales, non-Western teaching tales, pre- Renaissance classics, and children's literature along with many selections by women and minority authors, and stories from around the world.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0060453273

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9780060453275

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Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

The Fantastic in Literature

The Fantastic in Literature

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