Screen LibraryClassical traditions in science fiction /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Classical presences
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190228330 (paperback) : 0190228334 (paperback) 9780199988419 0199988412 |
| Index Number: | PS374 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/C614 |
| Contents: | Science fiction's rosy-fingered dawn. The lunar setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, science fiction's missing link / Dean Swinford -- Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jesse Weiner -- Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the center of the earth / Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- Mr. Lucian in suburbia: links between the true history and the first men in the moon / Antony Keen -- Science fiction 'classics'. A complex Oedipus: the tragedy of Edward Morbius / Gregory S. Bucher -- Walter M. Miller, jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz, The great year, and The ages of man / Erik Grayson -- Time and self-referentiality in The Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune / Joel Christensen -- Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael -- Classics in space. Moral and mortal in Star trek: the original series / George Kovacs -- Hybrids and homecomings in The odyssey and alien resurrection / Brett M. Rogers -- Classical antiquity and western identity in Battlestar Galactica / Vincent Tomasso -- Ancient classics for a future generation? Revised Iliadic epiphanies in Dan Simmons' Ilium / Ga?l Grob?ty -- Refiguring the Roman Empire in The hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins -- Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / W. Marshall. |