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PublisherLiverpool University Press
ISBN-101835538045
ISBN-139781835538043
eBay Product ID (ePID)4066409178
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Book TitleApocalypse in Crisis : Fiction from the War of the Worlds to Dead Astronauts
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicModern / 21st Century, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
GenreLiterary Criticism, History
AuthorChristopher Palmer
Book SeriesLiverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
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 Edition23
Series Volume Number72
Dewey Decimal823.08762090914
Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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
SynopsisApocalypse 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 NumberPR830.A66P3 2024
