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Visions and Re-visions

(re)constructing Science Fiction

By: Robert M. Philmus

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Visions and Re-visions

(re)constructing Science Fiction

By: Robert M. Philmus

The former editor of Science Fiction Studies, Robert M. Philmus now casts his expert eye on a diverse range of short stories and novels by the premier creators of science fiction, including George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, and Ursula LeGuin. With essays on such masters of the genre as Stanislaw Lem, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, the volume provides an in-depth textual examination of science fiction as a truly "revisionary" genre. Visions and Revisions will be of immense value to scholars of literature and science fiction studies.

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436

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Liverpool University Press

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0853238995

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9780853238997

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Abandoning Babylon

By: Nathaniel Robert Walker

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Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Abandoning Babylon

By: Nathaniel Robert Walker

The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find "the best of the city and the country" in the flowery suburbs? While looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, Walker argues that a great missing piece of the story can be found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries — such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H. G. Wells — are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As varied as their futuristic visions could be, Walker reveals how most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.

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432

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Oxford University Press

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0192605860

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9780192605863

Swift's Parody

By: Robert Phiddian

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Swift's Parody

By: Robert Phiddian

An exploration of parody in Swift's early prose, and in textual and cultural developments in Swift's Britain.

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237

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Cambridge University Press

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052147437X

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9780521474375

Politics of Education

Essays from Radical Teacher

By: Susan Gushee O'Malley,Robert C. Rosen

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Politics of Education

Essays from Radical Teacher

By: Susan Gushee O'Malley,Robert C. Rosen

This book brings together thirty of the best essays from Radical Teacher. The journal is devoted to feminist and socialist approaches to teaching--to showing teachers how to democratize the classroom and empower students. The articles included here have been chosen for their continuing usefulness to school and college teachers with emphasis on critical pedagogy as well as radical course content. These essays provide not only a wealth of ideas for teachers already involved in radical education but also an accessible, readable, and wide-ranging introduction for those new to it.

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384

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SUNY Press

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0791403556

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9780791403556

Canadian Literary Landmarks

By: John Robert Colombo

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Canadian Literary Landmarks

By: John Robert Colombo

Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social, and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary interests. Had this list been prepared by the editors of Michelin Guide, they would have added asterisks or stars to the entries: * Interesting. ** Worth a detour. *** Worth a journey. It is the opinion of the author of Canadian Literary Landmarks that all thirty-six sites are "Worth a journey." It is recognized that the average person is unlikely to visit No. 1, not to mention No. 36, but as these sites happen to be the first and last entries in the book, they mark a convenient and symbolic beginning and ending. (No. 1 being L’Anse aux Meadows, Epaves Bay, Nfld. and No. 36 being the North Pole, NWT).

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319

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Dundurn

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1459717988

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9781459717985

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

H.G. Wells

By: Robert Crossley

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H.G. Wells

By: Robert Crossley

Robert Crossley provides a comprehensive examination of Wells's best-known SF and fantasy works-and their impact on later writers and thinkers. Complete with Chronology, Primary and Secondary Bibliographies, and Index.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0916732509

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9780916732509

Visions and Re-visions

(re)constructing Science Fiction

By: Robert M. Philmus

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(re)constructing Science Fiction

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Book's by Robert M. Philmus

Visions and Re-visions

Visions and Re-visions

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Swift's Parody

Swift's Parody

Politics of Education

Politics of Education

Canadian Literary Landmarks

Canadian Literary Landmarks

Science Fiction

Science Fiction

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

Visions and Re-visions

Visions and Re-visions

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