The end of the world / edited by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander.
Material type: TextSeries: AlternativesPublication details: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, �1983.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 204 pages)Content type:- text
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- Science fiction -- History and criticism
- End of the world in literature
- Science-fiction -- Histoire et critique
- Fin du monde
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- End of the world in literature
- Science fiction
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Science-Fiction
- Weltuntergang Motiv
- Languages & Literatures
- Literature - General
- 809.3/876 19
- PN3433.6 .E6 1983eb
- EC 6745
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.
Book Description: Wolfe sees in these postholocaust narratives a central attraction- "the mythic power inherent in the very conception of a remade world." This power derives from three sources: the emergence of a new order from the ashes of the old system, and thus a kind of denial of death; the reinforcement of one set of values as opposed to another; and as something always replaces whatever was destroyed, a promise that nothing can annihilate humanity.
Introduction / Eric S. Rabkin -- The remaking of zero / Gary K. Wolfe -- The lone survivor / Robert Plank -- Ambiguous apocalypse / Robert Galbreath -- Round trips to doomsday / W. Warren Wagar -- Man-made catastrophes / Brian Stableford -- The rebellion of nature / W. Warren Wagar.
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