Keith Roberts's Pavane

A Critical Companion
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-71566-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 86 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

Reihe: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction genre in British Literature. In addition to a focused exploration of the individual stories and themes that make up this study also presents a commentary on the mosaic structure of this work, and the impact this has on the book as a whole. Through its discussion of themes such as religion, technology and morality, this text explores how alternate history plots can be used as a commentary or criticism of the current state of society.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kincaid, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Assembling the Mosaic.- Chapter 2: Measures of the Dance.- Chapter 3: Future Historic; Chapter 4: Pharisees and Inquisitors.- Chapter 5: Grief for the Death of Stones.- Chapter 6: Equivalents of a Dream.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Kincaid has won the Thomas Clareson Award from the Science Fiction Research Association, and has twice won the BSFA Non-Fiction Award. He has been shortlisted on multiple occasions for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work, The British Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award.