Phoenix from the ashes : the literature of the remade world
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Phoenix from the ashes : the literature of the remade world
（Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 30）
Greenwood Press, c1987
- lib. bdg. : alk. pap
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Bibliography: p. [207]-231
Filmography: p. [233]-236
Includes index
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Description
This interesting and unusual collection of essays explores the post-holocaust theme as it has been treated in science fiction and fantasy literature. Seen in a positive mode, this theme offers a powerful metaphor for exploring man's relationship to his social structure. The post-holocaust motif, the editor contends, literally permits the exploration of many sub-topics, such as rebirth, social patterns, evolution, devolution, entropy, history, ecology, ethics, medicine, personal values, and so on.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Phoenix from the Ashes Rising: An Introduction by Carl B. Yoke A Psychological Analysis of the Myth of the Remade World by Carl Goldberg Alas, Babylon and On the Beach: Antiphons of the Apocalypse by C.W.Sullivan III The Revival of Learning: Science after the Nuclear Holocaust in Science Fiction by Paul Brians Deaths by Drowning by Joe Sanders From Ashes Comes the Cuckoo: Character and Myth in Postholocaust Narratives by William Lomax Intellectual Power in H.G.Wells' The World Set Free by Nadine S. St. Louis Weinbaum's Fire from the Ashes: The Postdisaster Civilization of the Black Flame by Edgar L. Chapman Future Imperfect: Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow by Donna M. DeBlasio To Play the Phoenix: Medieval Images and Cycles of Rebuilding in Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz by Thomas P. Dunn The Death of the Heart in Level 7 by Carolyn Wendell Not with a Bang but with a Whimper: Anticatastrophic Elements in Vance's Dying Earth by Gregory M. Shreve J.G.Ballard: We Are the Survivors by Judith B. Kerman "Argument Not Less but More Heroic": Epic, Order, and Postholocaust Society in Piers Anthony's Battle Circle by Michael R. Collings Mythic Hells in Harlan Ellison's Science Fiction by Joseph Francavilla Bernard Malamud and Russell Hoban: Manipulating the Apocalypse by Theodore L. Steinberg Dominant Sociological Themes in Paul Anderson's Orion Shall Rise by Harold Lee Prosser The Days After: Films on Nuclear Aftermath by Wyn Wachorst Do Androids Dream of Ridley Scott? by David Desser The Road Warrior: Self and Society in the Rebuilding Process by Thomas P. Dunn Bibliography for Remade World Literature: Background, Criticism, and Fiction by Paul Brians, Thomas P. Dunn, Marshall Tymn, and Carl B. Yoke Filmography for Remade World Literature by Carl B. Yoke Index About the Editor and Contributors
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