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  1. Visions and re-visions
    (re)constructing science fiction
    Author: Philmus, Robert M.
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool [England] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time Traveller comes up with regarding a future which perpetually changes under his scrutiny. Rather than being another term for?recursivity?, then,?re-vision? involves the imaginative reconception of some prior text so as to elicit from it a latent meaningful possibility which the original vision was, so to speak, either not fully conscious of or not con.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846314377; 1846314372; 0853238995; 9780853238997
    RVK Categories: EC 6745
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; [32]
    Subjects: Science-Fiction-Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 411 pages)
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    Number in series from publisher's online site

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-400) and index
  2. Visions and re-visions
    (re)constructing science fiction
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool [England]

    This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time... more

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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time Traveller comes up with regarding a future which perpetually changes under his scrutiny. Rather than being another term for?recursivity?, then,?re-vision? involves the imaginative reconception of some prior text so as to elicit from it a latent meaningful possibility which the original vision was, so to speak, either not fully conscious of or not con

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846314377; 1846314372; 0853238995; 9780853238997
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; [32]
    Subjects: Science fiction; Science fiction; Science fiction; Science fiction
    Scope: Online Ressource (xiv, 411 pages)
    Notes:

    Number in series from publisher's online site. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-400) and index. - Print version record

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-400) and index

    Print version record

    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

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  3. Visions and re-visions
    (re)constructing science fiction
    Author: Philmus, Robert M.
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool [England]

    This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time... more

    Location:
    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.?Re-vision? in the pertinent sense finds its analogue in the succession of hypotheses that the Time Traveller comes up with regarding a future which perpetually changes under his scrutiny. Rather than being another term for?recursivity?, then,?re-vision? involves the imaginative reconception of some prior text so as to elicit from it a latent meaningful possibility which the original vision was, so to speak, either not fully conscious of or not con

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1846314372; 9781846314377
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; [32]
    Subjects: Science fiction; Science fiction
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xiv, 411 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-400) and index

    Number in series from publisher's online site

    Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

    Electronic reproduction

    Swift, Zamyatin, and Orwell, and the language of utopiaGeneric configurations of A story of the days to come -- Re-visions of The time machine -- Stanislaw Lem's Futurological congress as a metageneric text -- Karel Čapek's can(n)on of negation -- Olaf Stapledon's tragi-cosmic vision -- C.S. Lewis and the fictions of "scientism" -- Kurt Vonnegut, historiographer of the absurd : The sirens of Titan -- Jorge Luis Borges and the labyrinths of time -- "Elsewhere elsewhen otherwise" : Italo Calvino's cosmicomic tales -- Ursula K. Le Guin and time's dispossesion -- Time out of joint : the world(s) of Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle -- A revisionary construction of genre, with particular reference to science fiction.