Screen LibraryFuture narratives : theory, poetics, and media-historical moment /
This head volume of the Narrating Futures series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete manifestations across the media. Drawing on different theorems and approaches, i...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Narrating futures;
Volume 1 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110272376 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110272376.jpg |
| Summary: |
This head volume of the Narrating Futures series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete manifestations across the media. Drawing on different theorems and approaches, it offers a unified theory and a poetics of Future Narratives. Locating the media-historical moment of their emergence, this volume paves the way for the following volumes, which deal with how Future Narratives are refracted through different media. |
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1 online resource(xi,226pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110272376 |
| Index Number: | PN3383 |
| CLC: | I054 |
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 The Theory and Poetics of Future Narratives: A Narrative -- 2 Formal Models for Future Narratives -- 3 Future Narratives: The Media-Historical Moment -- Works Cited -- Index. |