Motherless Creations

Wendy C Nielsen

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless crea... Lees meer

Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using... Lees meer

Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe

Kenneth Usongo

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• This book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe appropriate supernatural devices like prophecies, dreams, beliefs, and divinations to create complex cha... Lees meer

Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film

Kirk Combe

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged tha... Lees meer

The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction

Emily Cox-Palmer-White

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the ... Lees meer

Motherless Creations

Wendy C Nielsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• This book explains the elimination of maternal characters in American, British, French, and German literature before 1890 by examining motherless crea... Lees meer

Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film

Kirk Combe

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged tha... Lees meer

J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy in Central Europe. Th... Lees meer

Lovecraft in the 21st Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft's influence in contemporary tim... Lees meer

Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe

Kenneth Usongo

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, drea... Lees meer

Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary

Shazia Sadaf, Aroosa Kanwal

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• As the first book-length study of emergent Pakistani speculative fiction written in English, this critical work explores the ways in which contemporar... Lees meer

Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction

Anna Neill

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Following the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species , Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "ci... Lees meer

Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction

Wessam Elmeligi

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger project... Lees meer

The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction

Emily Cox-Palmer-White

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• This work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Jud... Lees meer

Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction

Anna Neill

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables-as ... Lees meer

Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard

Carolyn Lau

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• In dialogue with posthuman thought, this book argues that Ballard's fiction affirms the expansive powers of the human body to create openings in the l... Lees meer

Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature

Israel A C Noletto

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present... Lees meer