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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Classical presences
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Classical presences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: The past is an undiscovered country / Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- Part I: SF'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 -- Part II: SF "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 P. Christensen ; Disability as rhetorical trope in classical myth and Blade runner / Rebecca Raphael -- Part III: 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 -- Part IV: 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 / C.W. Marshall -- Suggestions for further reading and viewing / Robert W. Cape, Jr. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, American. |
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, English. |
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Science fiction films -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction films. |
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Science fiction television programs -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction television programs. |
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Civilization, Ancient, in literature.
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Civilization, Ancient, in literature. |
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Classical literature -- Influence.
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Classical literature -- Influence. |
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Classical literature. |
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Civilization, Ancient -- Influences.
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Civilization, Ancient. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Author |
Rogers, Brett M.
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Stevens, Benjamin Eldon.
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ISBN |
9780199988426 electronic book |
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0199988420 electronic book) |
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9780190228330 |
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