Research Catalog

Title

Phoenix from the ashes : the literature of the remade world / edited by Carl B. Yoke.

Publication

New York : Greenwood Press, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

Yoke, Carl B.

Description

ix, 247 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 0193-6875 ; no. 30

Uniform Title

Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 30.

Subject

• Science fiction, American > History and criticism
• Regeneration in literature
• End of the world in literature
• Myth in literature
• Science fiction, English > History and criticism
• Literature and science > English-speaking countries
• Apocalyptic literature > History and criticism
• Apocalyptic literature
• Literature and science
• Science fiction, American
• Science fiction, English
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Science-Fiction
• Seelenwanderung
• English-speaking countries
• Amerikanisches Englisch

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Filmography: p. [233]-236.

Contents

Phoenix from the ashes rising : an introduction / Carl B. Yoke -- A psychological analysis of the myth of the remade world / Carl Goldberg -- Alas, Babylon and On the beach : antiphons of the apocalypse / C.W. Sullivan III -- The revival of learning : science after the nuclear holocaust in science fiction / Paul Brians -- Deaths by drowning / Joe Saunders -- From the ashes comes the cuckoo : character and myth in postholocaust narratives / William Lomax -- Intellectual power in H.G. Well's The world set free / Nadine S. St. Louis -- Wienbaum's fire from the ashes : the postdisaster civilization of The black flame / Edgar L. Chapman -- Future imperfect : Leigh Brackett's The long tomorrow / Donna M. DeBlasio -- To play the phoenix : medieval images and cycles of rebuilding in Walter Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz / Thomas P. Dunn -- The death of the heart in Level 7 / Carolyn Wendell -- Not with a bang but with a whimper : anticastastrophic elements in Vance's Dying earth / Gregory M. Shreve -- J.G. Ballard : we are the survivors / Judith B. Kerman -- "Argument not less but more heroic" : epic, order, and postholocaust society in Piers Anthony's Battle circle / Michael R. Collings -- Mythic hells in Harlan Ellison's science fiction / Joseph Francavilla -- Bernard Malamud and Russell Hoban : Manipulating the apocalypse / Theodore L. Stienberg -- Dominant sociological themes in Poul Anderson's Orion shall rise / Harold Lee Prosser -- The days after : films in nuclear aftermath / Wyn Wachhorst -- Do androids dream of Ridley Scott? / David Desser -- The road warrior : self and society in the rebuilding process / Thomas P. Dunn.

ISBN

• 031324328X
• 9780313243288

LCCN

87012035

OCLC

• ocm15792226
• 15792226
• SCSB-1195722

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library