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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Yael Maurer , Meyrav Koren-KuikPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 53 Weight: 0.501kg ISBN: 9789004361300ISBN 10: 9004361308 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 06 March 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Meyrav Koren-Kuik and Yael Maurer Part 1: The City and the Body Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeer's Veniss Underground Inbar Kaminsky Past Future Cityscapes: Narratives of the Post-Human in Post-Urban Environments Eduardo Barros-Grela Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body Elsa Bouet Part 2: Cities of Estrangement Time Travel, Dystopia, and the Manhattan Skyscraper in George Allan England's The Last New Yorkers and Murray Leinster's The Runaway Skyscraper Rosalind Fursland Wires are the New Filth: The Rebirth of Dickens' London in Cyberspace Keith Daniel Harris City of Lights No More: Dystopian Paris in French Science Fiction Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang Spatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson Imola Bulgoezdi Part 3: Cities of Imagination Divided Against Itself : Dual Urban Chronotopes Elana Gomel Experiencing the Cityscapes and Rural Landscapes as 'Citizens' of The Hunger Games Storyworld Natalie Krikowa 'Final Men', Racialised Fears & the Control of Monstrous Cityscapes in Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Films Glen Donnar Imagination Reloaded: Transfiguring Urban Space into Virtual Space in the tv Series Caprica Torsten Caeners The Dame Wore Skyscrapers: The Science-Fictional City as a Detective Story Shawn EdreiReviewsThis collection is a good addition to the discourse of understanding how setting, especially urban setting, plays an important role in how we experience sf narratives - Alison Fraser, Trent University, Canada in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 47.1 2020 pp. 137-140 Author InformationYael Maurer, Ph.D. (2009), Tel Aviv University, is a lecturer at the English and American Studies department at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has published The Science Fictional Dimensions of Salman Rushdie (2014) and articles on Hitchcock, Dickens and Philip Roth, among others. Meyrav Koren-Kuik is a doctoral candidate at the Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University. Her main research areas are Victorian literature, and Science Fiction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |