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Scotland as Science Fiction

Af: Caroline McCracken-Flesher Engelsk Paperback

Scotland as Science Fiction

Af: Caroline McCracken-Flesher Engelsk Paperback
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Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can seem a futuristic fiction itself. This book explores the tensions between science and a particular society that produce an innovative science fiction. Essays consider Scottish thermodynamics, Celtic myth, the rigors of religious “conversion,” Scotland’s fractured politics yet civil society, its languages of alterity (Scots, Gaelic, allegory, poetry), and the lure of the future. From Peter Pan and Dr. Jekyll to the poetry of Edwin Morgan and the worlds of Muriel Spark, Ken Macleod, or Iain M. Banks, Scotland’s creative complex yields a literature that models the future for Science Fiction.
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Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can seem a futuristic fiction itself. This book explores the tensions between science and a particular society that produce an innovative science fiction. Essays consider Scottish thermodynamics, Celtic myth, the rigors of religious “conversion,” Scotland’s fractured politics yet civil society, its languages of alterity (Scots, Gaelic, allegory, poetry), and the lure of the future. From Peter Pan and Dr. Jekyll to the poetry of Edwin Morgan and the worlds of Muriel Spark, Ken Macleod, or Iain M. Banks, Scotland’s creative complex yields a literature that models the future for Science Fiction.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9781611484267
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 161148426X
Udg. Dato: 27 okt 2011
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 141mm
Højde: 215mm
Forlag: Bucknell University Press
Oplagsdato: 27 okt 2011
Forfatter(e) Caroline McCracken-Flesher


Kategori Litteraturstudier: lyrik og lyrikere


ISBN-13 9781611484267


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 208


Udgave


Længde 13mm


Bredde 141mm


Højde 215mm


Udg. Dato 27 okt 2011


Oplagsdato 27 okt 2011


Forlag Bucknell University Press