Alternate History: Playing With Contingency and Necessity - Couverture rigide

Singles, Kathleen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110272172 ISBN 13 : 9783110272178

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2013

Synopsis

While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives.

The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre, such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kathleen Singles, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110272172
• ISBN 13: 9783110272178
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 319
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