Medieval science fiction

著者

• Kears, Carl
• Paz, James

書誌事項

Medieval science fiction

edited by Carl Kears & James Paz

（King's College London medieval studies, 24）

King's College London, Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, 2016

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Essays looking at the idea of "science fiction" as it can be applied to medieval texts, and the synergies between the genres. This volume brings two areas of study that have traditionally been kept apart into explosive contact. For the first time, it draws the historical literatures and cultures of the Middle Ages into the orbit of modern science fiction, aligning the cosmologies, technologies and wonders of the past with visions of the future. The essays it contains consider where, how and why "science" and "fiction" interact in medieval literature; they explore the ways in which works of modern science fiction illuminate medieval counterparts; and they also identify the presence and absence of the medieval past in science-fiction history and criticism. From the science and fictions of Beowulf tothe medieval and post-medieval appearances of the Green Children of Woolpit; from time travel in the legend of the Seven Sleepers to the medievalism of Star Trek; from manmade marvels in medieval manuscripts to the blurringof medieval magic and futuristic technology in tales of the dying earth, the chapters repeatedly rethink the simplistic divides that have been set up between modern and pre-modern texts. They uncover striking resonances across time and space while also revealing how arguably the two most popular genres of today, science fiction and fantasy, have been constructed around conceptions, and misconceptions, of the Middle Ages. JAMES PAZ is Lecturer in Early Medieval English Literature at the University of Manchester; CARL KEARS is currently based at King's College London, where he teaches Old and Middle English Literature. Contributors: Daniel Anlezark, Mary BaineCampbell, Guy Consolmagno, Denis Ferhatovic, Michel F. Flynn, Alison Harthill, Patricia Clare Ingham, Minsoo Kang, R.M. Liuzza, Jeff Massey, James Paz, Andy Sawyer, Andrew Scheil

目次

Medieval Science Fiction: An Impossible Fantasy? Is Beowulf Science Fiction? The Future is a Foreign Country: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers and the Anglo-Saxon Sense of the Past Untimely Travel: Living and Dying in Connie Willis's Doomsday Book "On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot... `Tis a Silly Space": Star Trek and the Inconsequence of SF Medievalism "Those two green children which Nubrigensis speaks of in his time, that fell from heavem", or the Origins of Science Fiction Aliens and Anglo-Saxons in Edwin Morgan's "The First Men on Mercury" The Riddle of Medieval Technology Dreams of War, Dreams of Dragons' Fire: Conrad Kyeser's Bellefortis Courtly Love on Mars: E.R. Burroughs and the Medieval Lineage of Planetary Romance The Medieval Dying Earth Catapunk: Toward a Medieval Aesthetic of Science Fiction Medieval Cosmology and World Building Discovering Eifelheim

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB21779792
• ISBN:
  • 9780953983889
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: [London]
• ページ数/冊数: xxvi, 304 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 809.387620902
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Fiction -- 17th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Science fiction -- History and criticism
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA19315328