Title Classical Traditions in Science Fiction

Published Oxford University Press, USA, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Series; Classical Traditions in Science Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Past Is an Undiscovered Country; Part I SF's Rosy-Fingered Dawn; 1 The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, Science Fiction's Missing Link; 2 Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; 3 Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; 4 Mr. Lucian in Suburbia: Links Between the True History and The First Men in the Moon; Part II SF "Classics"; 5 A Complex Oedipus: The Tragedy of Edward Morbius 6 Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Great Year, and the Ages of Man7 Time and Self-Referentiality in the Iliad and Frank Herbert's Dune; 8 Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Classical Myth and Blade Runner; Part III Classics in Space; 9 Moral and Mortal in Star Trek: The Original Series; 10 Hybrids and Homecomings in the Odyssey and Alien Resurrection; 11 Classical Antiquity and Western Identity in Battlestar Galactica; Part IV Ancient Classics for a Future Generation?; 12 Revised Iliadic Epiphanies in Dan Simmons's Ilium 13 Refiguring the Roman Empire in The Hunger Games Trilogy14 Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the End of Antiquity; Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing; Works Cited; Index Summary For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of ""classics"" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection dedicated to the rich study of science fiction's classical heritage, offering a much-needed mappi Notes Print version record Subject Science fiction, American -- History and criticism Science fiction, English -- History and criticism Science fiction films -- History and criticism Science fiction television programs -- History and criticism Civilization, Ancient, in literature. Classical literature -- Influence Civilization, Ancient -- Influences Civilization, Ancient, in literature Classical literature -- Influence Science fiction, American Science fiction, English Science fiction films Science fiction television programs Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1322426988 9781322426983

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