Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury / editor, Rafeeq O. McGiveron, Lansing Community College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGiveron, Rafeeq O.

Contributor:

McGiveron, Rafeeq O., editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights Fahrenheit 451

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. Fahrenheit 451.

Bradbury, Ray.

Book burning in literature.

Censorship in literature.

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 261 pages).

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this volume, introductory essays situate the novel in its historical and cultural context and also survey its critical reception, while subsequent chapters explore Bradbury's creation and reworking of the story, issues such as memory, love and morality, domesticity, intellectual property and censorship, and the appeal of Fahrenheit 451 in other media. Rounding out the volume is a bibliography of other important critical sources for readers seeking to study the novel and its themes further" -- provided by publisher.

Contents:

About this volume / Rafeeq O. McGiveron

On Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron

Biography of Ray Bradbury / Garyn G. Roberts

Some social and cultural context on Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / Garyn G. Roberts

Genre, censorship, and cultural changes : critical reception of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 from the 1950s to 2000s / Robin Anne Reid

The phoenix and the fireman : dialogistic inversion in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / Joseph Michael Sommers

From "government control of this and that" to "the whole culture's shot through" : behavior, blame, and the bomb in The Martian chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron

Speaking futures : the road to Fahrenheit 451 / Jonathan R. Eller

"Classics cut to fit"? Fahrenheit 451 and its appeal in other media / Phil Nichols

Fahrenheit 451 and the utopic dystopia : Bradbury's vision compared to those of More, Orwell, Huxley, Wells, and Dick / Wolf Forrest

"The house all burnt" : disintegrating domesticity in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / Andrea Krafft

"Where ignorant armies clash by night" : love, war, and the women of Fahrenheit 451 / Timonthy E. Kelley

Knowledge and masculinity : male archetypes in Fahrenheit 451 / Imola Bulgozdi

Reading Montag as a postmodern Don Quixote / Guido Laino

The argument about memory in Fahrenheit 451 / Anna McHugh

If we own it, we can destroy it : Fahrenheit 451 and intellectual property / Aaron Barlow

Bradbury, technology, and the future of reading / Ádám T. Bogár and Rebeka Sára Szigethy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781619252257

1619252252

OCLC:

1003586674