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Apocalypse in Crisis: Fiction from 'The War of the Worlds' to 'Dead Astronauts'
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
1835538045
ISBN-13
9781835538043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4066409178
Product Key Features
Book Title
Apocalypse in Crisis : Fiction from the War of the Worlds to Dead Astronauts
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Modern / 21st Century, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
Book Series
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"The individual readings in the book are often illuminating, particularly in the discussion of points of style, an issue that is often overlooked in discussion of sf texts." Connor Pitetti, Science Fiction Studies
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
72
Dewey Decimal
823.08762090914
Table Of Content
Introduction: Apocalypse Now and Then Part 1: The Nineteenth Century to the Postwar Disaster Novels 1. Modern Apocalypses and Modernism: Enter Science Fiction 2. The Postwar Disaster Novels: Apocalypse Contained Part 2: Post-Imperial Subjects 3. Style and Immolation: J. G. Ballard 4. Apocalypse in 1969: Brian Aldiss and Angela Carter 5. Darker Imaginations, Harder Lessons: Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing Part 3: Resistance and Revision 6. Apocalypse, Comedy, Multiplicity: Arno Schmidt, Anthony Burgess, Ursula K. Le Guin 7. Apocalypse and Everyday Life: Tom Perrotta, Douglas Coupland 8. Apocalypse in the Contemporary World City: Don DeLillo, China Miéville 9. Beyond Apocalypse: Two Paths: Jeff VanderMeer, Kim Stanley Robinson
Synopsis
Apocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat; it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses fictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the imagination of apocalypse from the postwar British disaster novels, through novels of the countercultural sixties, feminist interventions, and recent revisions and critiques. As empire fades, ideas of sexuality shift, and attitudes to nature and to the city change, so apocalyptic fictions change. The individual subject is asserted, immolated, transcended, abandoned; individual deaths are substituted for mass death; death is faked or erased. The subjects and survivors of catastrophe set about re-establishing civilization, or they abandon it, finding new ways of being and of dying; they respond to it when it comes from outside, as an invasion, or they are immersed in it, as it shifts from being an event to being a condition. They flee the city for the country, or accept that they must draw on the energies of the world city in order to survive. The book includes detailed discussion of novels by H. G. Wells, George M. Stewart, Nevil Shute, John Wyndham, Arthur C. Clarke, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Anna Kavan, Arno Schmidt, Anthony Burgess, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tom Perrotta, Douglas Coupland, Don DeLillo, China Miéville, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kim Stanley Robinson.
LC Classification Number
PR830.A66P3 2024
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