| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Prologue: science and fiction -- "The Ray of Life": science in revolutions -- "Professor's Head": isolated organs -- "Neither life, nor death": anabiosis -- "The Billionaire's Last Will": hormones and institutions -- "The Dog's Heart" and monkey glands -- Quo vadimus?: human biology and human destiny -- Epilogue: an unending quest |
| Summary |
Krementsov examines a particular fascination with the dream of immortality and the place of science and fiction in its pursuit in Russia during roughly a decade that followed the country's political revolutions of 1917. It argues that contemporary scientific experiments aimed at the control over life, death, and disease inspired many Russian writers to conduct their own literary experiments with the ideas and techniques offered by experimental biology and medicine, which found expression in both popular-science writings and a new literary genre, science fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature and science -- Soviet Union
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Biology -- Soviet Union -- Experiments
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Immortality in literature.
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Biology in literature.
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Science fiction, Russian -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in Literature
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- EUROPEAN -- EASTERN.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Medicine in literature
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Biology -- Experiments
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Biology in literature
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Immortality in literature
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Literature and science
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Science fiction, Russian
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199992997 |
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0199992991 |
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0199992983 |
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9780199992980 |
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9780199370016 |
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019937001X |
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