[PDF] Spaces Of The Fantastic eBook

Author : Julius Greve
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3030281167

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This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.

Author : Patricia Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317581334

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Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply influenced by the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of fantastic texts in which the impossible is bound to space — space not as scene of action but as impossible element performing a fantastic transgression within the storyworld. This book conceptualizes and contextualizes this postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of the concept of space as socially mediated, constructed, and conventional. In an illustration of the transnational nature of this phenomenon, García analyzes a varied corpus of the Fantastic in the past four decades from different cultures and languages, merging literary analysis with classical questions of space related to the fields of philosophy, urban studies, and anthropology. Texts include authors such as Julio Cortázar (Argentina), John Barth (USA), J.G. Ballard (UK), Jacques Sternberg (Belgium), Fernando Iwasaki (Perú), Juan José Millás (Spain,) and Éric Faye (France). This book contributes to Literary Theory and Comparative Literature in the areas of the Fantastic, narratology, and Geocriticism and informs the continuing interdisciplinary debate on how human beings make sense of space.

Author : David Punter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000299724

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This book provides a series of new addresses to the enduring problem of how to categorize the Fantastic. The approach taken is through the lens of spatiality; the Fantastic gives us new worlds, although of course these are refractions of worlds already in being. In place of ‘real’ spaces (whatever they might be), the Fantastic gives us imaginary spaces, although within those spaces historical and cultural conflicts are played out, albeit in forms that stretch our understanding of everyday location, and our usual interpretations of cause and effect. Many authors are addressed here, from a variety of different geographical and national traditions, thus demonstrating how the Fantastic - as a mode, a genre, a way of thinking, imagining and writing - continually traverses borders and boundaries. We hope to move the ongoing debate about the Fantastic forward in a scholarly as well as an engaging way.

Author : Stefan Rabitsch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496836642

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Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to “real-ize” that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.

Author : Torben Kuhlmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0735844445

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"When an inventive mouse misses the biggest cheese festival the world has ever seen, he's determined to turn back the clock. But what is time, and can it be influenced? With the help of a mouse clockmaker, a lot of inventiveness, and the notes of a certain famous Swiss physicist he succeeds in traveling back in time. But when he misses his goal by eighty years, the only one who can help is an employee of the Swiss Patent Office, who turned our concept of space and time upside down."--Amazon.com

Author : Nigel Hawkes
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : 9780749623111

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Cutaway illustrations and text reveal how the space shuttle and other spacecraft work and what astronauts do in space.

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000208044

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Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches, such as geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities, these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media, such as film or television. The contributors to Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible.

Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2001-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822326960

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DIVHistorical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar./div

Author : Sue Becklake
Publisher : Miles Kelly Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9781782097372

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Planets and stars, astronomy and the exciting lives of astronauts are investigated through 300 facts, cool images and fun cartoons. Learn about star-studded galaxies, discover how astronomers map the skies, and find out how the latest space technology is helping us explore other worlds.

Author : E.W. Wooten
Publisher : Ethan W. Wooten
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A boy named Jason Calloway has had a fair share of bad luck in life. In a world filled with space travel and adventure, the kid was abandoned by his father and left with an abusive foster family. After running away, Jason meets Timolas Thomas Tymes, 3T for short, who dreams of traveling among the stars. With the help of a mysterious girl, Amelia Hush, they end up on a voyage through the solar system on a stolen ship. Can Jason overcome his own demons to find both his sense of adventure and a new family? Only if the dangers of space don't end them all first.