Classical traditions in science fiction / edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogers, Brett M., editor.

Stevens, Benjamin Eldon, editor.

Series:

Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Science fiction, English--History and criticism.

Science fiction, English.

Science fiction films--History and criticism.

Science fiction films.

Science fiction television programs--History and criticism.

Science fiction television programs.

Civilization, Ancient, in literature.

Classical literature--Influence.

Classical literature.

Civilization, Ancient--Influences.

Civilization, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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 / Gaël Grobéty

Refiguring the Roman Empire in The hunger games trilogy / Marian Makins

Jonathan Hickman's Pax Romana and the end of antiquity / W. Marshall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-370) and index.

ISBN:

9780199988419

0199988412

9780190228330

0190228334

OCLC:

900593895