Authors: Jürgen Grimm ,Susanne Hartwig

Description: Vom mittelalterlichen Rolandslied bis zur Gegenwartsliteratur. Die beliebte Literaturgeschichte führt durch sämtliche Epochen und Gattungen und ordnet die Meilensteine der französischen Literatur in ihren kulturellen und ideengeschichtlichen Kontext ein. Neben Namen mit weltweiter Strahlkraft wie Molière und Racine, Voltaire, Hugo, Sartre und Camus finden auch weniger bekannte Autorinnen und Autoren, "kleinere" Gattungen wie der Kriminalroman oder die Beur-Literatur sowie Film und Chanson Eingang in eine lebendige Darstellung literarischer Entwicklungen. In der 6. Auflage mit zahlreichen neu verfassten Kapiteln und Aktualisierungen insbesondere zur Gegenwartsliteratur. Außerdem mit einem kompakten Überblick über die frankophonen Literaturen.

Langue: de

Publisher: Springer-Verlag

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Philippe Mather ,Sylvain Rheault

Description: French science-fiction (SF) is as old as the French language. Cyrano de Bergerac wrote about a trip to the moon that was published back in 1657, as did Jules Verne in 1865, this time using hard, scientific facts. The first movie showing a trip to the moon was made by Georges Méliès in 1902. In the comics’ format, Hergé had Tintin walk on the moon in 1954, 15 years before Neil Armstrong. These are just a few of the many unique French contributions to SF that rightly deserve to be better known. One of the purposes of this collection is to introduce French SF to an English-speaking audience. Rediscovering French Science Fiction... first revisits proto science-fiction from authors like Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne, before delving into contemporary science-fiction works from authors such as René Barjavel and Jacques Spitz. A contribution from preeminent SF author Élisabeth Vonarburg, from Québec, helps to understand the constraints and advantages of writing SF in French. A third section is devoted to French SF in movies and graphic novels, media where French creators have been recognized worldwide. This collection explores many aspects of French SF, including the genre’s deep roots in popular culture, the influence of key authors on its historical development, and the form and function of science and fantasy, as well as the impact of films and graphic novels on the public perception of the genre’s nature.

Langue: en

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Alexander C.T. Geppert ,Daniel Brandau ,Tilmann Siebeneichner

Description: Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and vio​lence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking ​European Astroculture trilogy, ​Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.

Langue: en

Publisher: Springer Nature

Categories: Science

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Langue: en

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Categories: Union catalogs

Authors: Ashley Marc Recanati

Description: AI, Big Data and other 4th Industrial Revolution technologies are poised to wreak havoc in virtually every industry, unlocking huge productivity gains via automation of labor both manual and cognitive. Less discussed are the impacts on workers, who see the value of their skills erode, along with the menace of mass structural unemployment. How can workers assess their vulnerabilities? What can they do to improve their prospects, effective immediately? In this book, you will learn how to: - Survey new tech and decrypt their potential impacts on work - Assess your strengths and weaknesses in the face of AI, the shared economy, and other tech-propelled threats - Foment a battle plan to survive and thrive Ashley Recanati provides guidance for employees to rise above their peers and preserve their value, in a book that will interest managers and scholars, but foremost destined to ordinary workers.

Langue: en

Publisher: Springer Nature

Categories: Business & Economics

Authors: Bernard Montoneri

Description: Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel presents ten chapters discussing themes related to time travel, utopias, and dystopias in science fiction novels published in America and Europe between the 18th and 20th century. These themes include social progress, freedom and human rights, technological advances, and the issues of ethics, racism, sexism, censorship, and slavery. The contributors analyze novels such as The Year 2440 published in 1771, Paris in the Twentieth Century written by Jules Verne, Blake; or, The Huts of America by Martin Robinson Delany, The Amphibian Man by Alexander Belyaev, Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ashes, Ashes by René Barjavel, The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster, Morel’s Invention by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and writers of Spanish, Argentinian, English, and French fictions such as George Orwell, Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg and Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello. This book notably presents their sources and influence, the accuracy of their predictions, and their relevance in our very unstable world.

Langue: en

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Friedrich Leiner ,Jürgen Gutsch

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Langue: de

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Categories: Science fiction

Authors: Horst Illmer

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Langue: de

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Categories: Reference

Authors: Ray Keenoy ,Laurence Laluyaux ,Gareth Stanton

Description: The Babel guide has 150 original reviews of books by over 100 authors from France, Quebec, North and West Africa, Belgium and Switzerland. Each review provides a kind of trailer for the work and is followed by an excerpt as a taster. It introduces big names of French literature such as Sartre, Camus, Colette and Duras, and a collection of less familiar writers, such as Driss Chraibi and Madeline Bourdouxhe. It includes a database of French fiction translated in the UK since 1950, with original titles and current prices. This is the third in a series of accessible and illustrated guides to world fiction available in English translation, aimed at journalists, academics, teachers and the ordinary reader. The reviews let potential readers have a idea as to whether a work might suit them.

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag

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Langue: de

Publisher:

Categories: Fantastic liction

Authors: Joseph Jurt ,Martin Ebel ,Ursula Erzgräber

Description: Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Französischsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur 1918-1986/87" verfügbar.

Langue: de

Publisher: de Gruyter

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Authors: Eric S. Rabkin ,Martin Harry Greenberg ,Joseph D. Olander

Description: The essays selected by the editors to ex­plore these apocalyptic visions are: “The Re­making of Zero: Beginning at the End,” by Gary K. Wolfe; “The Lone Survivor,” by Robert Plank; “Ambiguous Apocalypse: Transcendental Versions of the End,” by Robert Galbreath; “World’s End: The Imag­ination of Catastrophe,” by W. Warren Wagar; “Man-Made Catastrophes,” by Brian Stableford; and “The Rebellion of Nature,” by W. Warren Wagar. 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.

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Christopher Todd

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Langue: en

Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press

Categories: Best sellers

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Langue: en

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Categories: American literature

Authors: Gertrud Lehnert

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Langue: de

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Categories: Fiction

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Langue: en

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Categories: Books

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Langue: de

Publisher:

Categories: German literature

Authors: Pascal Vandenberghe

Description: Classiques littéraires, essais philosophiques, œuvres politiques, révélations historiques, etc... Un recueil qui motive, réveille, incite et stimule l'appétit de livre. L'auteur de ces chroniques ne se prétend pas " journaliste ", ni " critique littéraire ", il n'en est que plus libre dans ses choix et ses analyses. Si son recueil devait faire office de " manifeste ", ce pourrait être ce que Gilles Heuré dit de Léon Werth, dans l'essai biographique qu'il lui a consacré : " La critique littéraire ne doit pas se contenter de parler des livres à la mode ni des auteurs connus dont on devine qu'ils seront lus par les critiques contemporains, les augustes plumes de la grand presse qui les évoqueront à l'envi, ceux qui, comme disait Jaurès, se contentent de promener "leur âme au milieu des chefs-d'œuvre". La première règle est de ne jamais parier sur l'inculture de ses lecteurs et de ne jamais miser sur leur indifférence à l'égard de ce qu'ils ne connaissent pas, mais dont rien n'autorise à penser qu'ils ne voudraient pas le connaître ". Cannibale lecteur applique ce principe en misant sur la curiosité des lecteurs et leur appétit de culture. Un privilège dont il faut profiter, car ce genre de recueils a ceci de gratifiant, c'est qu'à chaque page on a le sentiment d'avoir acquis une pièce supplémentaire au puzzle qui permet une meilleure compréhension de la vie des hommes.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Favre

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Neil Barron

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Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Reference

Authors: Franz Rottensteiner

Description: Discusses the history of science fiction, including Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau, Mars stories, dime novels and pulp heroes, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hugo Gernsback, Tsiolkovsky, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Abraham Merritt, robots, E.E. "Doc" Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, John W. Campbell Jr., Jules Verne, Olaf Stapledon, C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, hollow earth stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, anti-utopian fiction, Albert Robida, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Hannes Bok, Buck Rogers, Superman, television science fiction, aliens, science fiction in the Soviet Union, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, Rumania, and Germany, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stanislaw Lem, science fiction fandom, the Nebula Awards and the Hugo Awards.

Langue: en

Publisher: New York : Seabury Press

Categories: Literary Criticism