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Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity
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Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity

by Edmund J. Smyth. 160 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Edmund J. Smyth

Publisher:

   Liverpool University Press

Place of Publication:

  Liverpool, England  

Publication Year:

  2000
Subjects:   Verne, Jules,--1828-1905--Criticism And Interpretation, Science Fiction, French--History And Criticism
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Jules Verne Rediscovered: Didacticism and the Scientific Novel
Book by Arthur B. Evans; Greenwood Press, 1988
Subjects: Didactic Fiction, French--History And Criticism, Science Fiction, French--History And Criticism, Science In Literature, Verne, Jules--1828-1905--Criticism And Interpretation, Voyages, Imaginary
...1 lib. bdg.: alk. paper 1. Verne, Jules, 1828-1905--Criticism and interpretation. 2. Didactic fiction, French...French literature" Angenot, "Jules Verne . . . Literary Criticism I" 37, IID and another bemoans...
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Jules Verne: Narratives of Modernity
Book by Edmund J. Smyth; Liverpool University Press, 2000
Subjects: Science Fiction, French--History And Criticism, Verne, Jules--1828-1905--Criticism And Interpretation
...quindecennial celebrations and the popular interest in Verne's works that resulted from it, Roland Barthes included...viewed in retrospect as part of the history of literary criticism, was profoundly prophetic: L'oeuvre de Jules Verne dont on a fete recemment le cinquantenaire serait...Pierre Macherey who offered a materialist-sociological interpretation of Verne in his Pour une theorie de la production litteraire...
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Science Fiction
Book by Adam Roberts; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Science Fiction--History And Criticism
...example, much science-fiction criticism talks about the origins...been called The Father of Science Fiction only in an SF tale could...century AD. In his True History, the ship in which the...Darmok episode, speaking science fiction well depends upon understanding...without some sense of the history of the genre, if only because...Let him produce it. Verne, quoted in Parrinder 1980...
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Young Adult Science Fiction
Book by C. W. Sullivan III; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Science Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Young Adult Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Youth--Books And Reading--United States
...creatures without the social criticism and wrote action stories-space...overly concerned about Freudian interpretations and virtually any hint of sex whatever...science fiction since the days of Jules Verne and H. G.Wells; and stories aimed...s stories, and discussions of science-fiction pour la jeunesse mingle books in...mission for the Interstellar League. French-Ca- nadian children's SF characteristically...uses time travel to learn about history before the Great Catastrophe...
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The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950
Book by Mike Ashley; Liverpool University Press, 2000
Subjects: Literature Publishing--English-Speaking Countries--History--20th Century, Science Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Science Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Science Fiction--Periodicals--History
...Sallo, a magistrate and the founder of modern periodical criticism. It was weekly and lasted for 13 issues before French censorship...Strand contained An Express of the Future, attributed to Jules Verne though subsequently discovered to have been written by his...Novel Magazine and The Grand Magazine , both launched in 1905, The Story-teller , started in 1907, The Red Magazine...
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From Trauma to Paranoia: Nuclear Weapons, Science Fiction and History
Journal article by Cyndy Hendershot; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 32, 1999
Subjects: Defense reaction (Physiology)--Analysis, Motion pictures--Social aspects, Nuclear warfare in motion pictures--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Science fiction films--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...fiction stands in opposition to history, operating as a mythology that...year, Gerald Heard argued that science fiction can guide humans in the Atomic...Richard Hodgens levels this type of criticism especially at science-fiction...belief in the positivist notion of history, so dear to science fiction and to America, could continue...Hodgens, Richard. "A Short Tragical History of the Science Fiction Film." 1959. SF: The Other Side...
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Speaking in Tongues: An Interview with Science Fiction Writer Nalo Hopkinson
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Subjects: African American women authors--Interviews, Authors--Interviews, Hopkinson, Nalo--Interviews, Science fiction--Women authors
...to get the attention of an agent or publisher. Rutledge: Do you write any book reviews or do any kind of literary criticism? Hopkinson: I have published a few non-fiction articles, mostly brief book reviews and one opinion piece, but nothing...
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The Imagined Communities of Quebec's Science Fiction and Fantasy: Esther Rochon's Cycle De Vrenalik
Journal article by Amy J. Ransom; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 53, 2006
Subjects: Cycle de Vrenalik (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Fantasy writers--Works, Quebec--Portrayals, Rochon, Esther--Works
...reflect many of the concerns of French-speakers in Canada. A figurative...particular author of Quebecois science fiction and fantasy uses the genre to...peoples magical worldview--their history/legends. Green influences both...well as other works of Quebecois science fiction and fantasy--while the State...appreciation and participation in its history also contribute to a belonging...people, the Quebecois are not French either. Originating from a common...Contemporary SF from Quebec." Science Fiction Studies 82 (November 2000): 439-60...Millenaire dEsther Rochon." Women in French Studies 5 (Winter 1997): 97-105...
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The Art of the Novel in 'Saint Glinglin
Journal article by Gilbert Pestureau, Mary Campbell-Sposito; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 17, 1997
Subjects: French fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Queneau, Raymond--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...philosophy of history, cinemas and science fiction. Thus this composite work presents...humorous lesson in literary history: implanting this poetic text...romane"--the ancestor of the French language at the dawn of the...basket/tethered balloon (a fictional invention of Queneaus akin...5) He discovered Ulysses in French in 1929, at the moment of the...Queneaus voice devoted to the sciences and to philosophy. There is...Glinglin an allegory of human history, from fish--our wet forebears...and of passion--from myth to science fiction. This novel is a characteristic...disengaged from the tensions of history in the thirties as well as...Saint Glinglin involve the French edition of 1948 (Gallimard...
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Canis Major: Introducing Raymond Queneau
Journal article by Mary Campbell-Sposito; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 17, 1997
Subjects: French literature--20th century, Queneau, Raymond--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...ethnology, the philosophy of history, cinema, and science fiction). The novels final version emphasizes...anthropology. Its title is part of the French expression "jusqua la saint-glinglin...Chambernacs Encyclopedia of Inexact Sciences. The novels fictional portion details the story of the...of the end of the dialectic of history.(8) Just before war breaks out...poetic novel and to use spoken French as a source of dialogue. A typical...this novel is upon dreams and history with language very much a player. In French "bonnes fleurs bleues" means...
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The Prophet of Scientific Morality
Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 26, Winter 2002
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...19102-3684. Mention Jules Verne (1828-1905), and most people think of...respectability." And though Verne inhabits the public consciousness...son of a lawyer who expected Jules to follow him into the legal...saw the dangers of planned science, whether in the hands of governments...corporations," but he did not fault science; rather, "what he lost was...
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Fear of Flying: The Fiction of War 1886-1916
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Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 31, Autumn 2007
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A Solid B+ for Prediction. IF H. G. WELLS WERE IN A JEOpardy category, it would almost certainly be science fiction. But at the turn of the last century, Wells (1866-1946) was regarded as one of the leading intellectuals of the West, with an influence that was felt in science, biology, history, and education. In widely popular books, he predicted an astonishing number of the seminal events of the 20th century...military victories would be won "in the schools and colleges and universities: He foresaw English--"but perhaps French--becoming the dominant world language. He recognized the globalization that is a hallmark of the world economy a...
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The Phony War between Science & Religion over Evolution
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Subjects: Bible. O.T. Genesis (Sacred text)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Evolution--Religious aspects, Science--Religious aspects
...lunacy. And reproductive continuity is itself superseded by the amazing human cultural processes of immortalization in history, works of art, myth, and loving memory. Thus even the way evolution takes place becomes more and more a function...denominations accepted evolution, they did so grudgingly, ignoring its implications and discouraging thinkers, like the French Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin, who saw it as consistent with Christian doctrine. What followed were cultist rejections...Locke, and Mill found it necessary to cloak their wisdom about the darker side of human social origins in a noble fiction that would preserve public ethics. But in this case it is not required that one sacrifice ones honesty to ones prudence...the University of Texas, Dallas, and the author, among other works, of Natural Classicism: Essays on Literature and Science.
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...chocolate, dandruff and the crassness of reality show contestants, Humphrys - who has sparked his own headlines with his criticism of the "dumbing down" of British television with reality shows such as Big Brother and violence-rich soaps and hes also...
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...It was the largest lapse of judgment that I can ever imagine. YET she is nevertheless unrepentant about her relentless criticism of the war and her campaigning during it. Not that her campaigns brought her personal happiness. Her second husband...
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...Of Heaven has therefore come under criticism from both camps. What it principally...somewhere on the cutting-room floor. As history, its completely spurious. The Knights...So what we have here is worthless history, dreary storytelling and an absurd...
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Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, May 2, 1996
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History
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...revolutionized historiography, for it placed emphasis on textual criticism and on a critical attitude toward documents and sources...national historians were Thomas B. Macaulay in England, and Jules Michelet in France. In the United States, romantic historians...Karl Marx not only set in motion a continuing series of interpretations of history from the Marxist economic point of view but...
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
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...who carried the arts of criticism and conversation to new...idealist, and when the French failed to live up to expectations...watershed in literary history, William Wordsworth...also rich in literary criticism and other nonfictional...wrote arresting adventure fiction and childrens verse. The...foundations for modern literary criticism, and his poetry is also...American and English literary history. Its difficulty, formal...captured their flavor in fiction. Moved by the Great Depression...wrote many of his works in French and translated them into...


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