Mars: A Tour Of The Human Imagination - Rilegato

Rabkin, Eric S.

 
9780275987190: Mars: A Tour Of The Human Imagination
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ISBN 10: 0275987191 ISBN 13: 9780275987190
Casa editrice: Praeger Pub Text, 2005

Sinossi

What is Mars? From the ancients to the present, we have imagined Mars repeatedly and studied it longingly. As scientific knowledge of Mars has changed, so has the cultural imagination of this celestial neighbors. The earth-centered beginnings of astronomy connected the blood-red planet with the God of War. The Copernican Revolution and a later, simple mistranslation from Italian supported fantastic visions of distant Mars as the abode of life variously bizarre, ideal, or malignant. In the work of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, in books, films, radio, and television, Mars reflected not only eternal hopes and fears but then-current political realities. In recent years, NASA-fication has brought Mars home, imagining the Red Planet almost as an eighth continent of Earth, a candidate for exploration and exploitation both in fiction and in fact. Rabkin weaves a chronological tale of many threads, including mythology, astrology, astronomy, literary criticism, and cultural studies.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Eric S. Rabkin teaches in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author (and editor) of more than 30 books on science fiction and writing, including Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology and The Fantastic in Literature, and more than 100 articles in scholarly and mainstream media.

Eric S. Rabkin teaches in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author (and editor) of more than 30 books on science fiction and writing, including Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology and The Fantastic in Literature, and more than 100 articles in scholarly and mainstream media.

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Editore
Praeger Pub Text
Data di pubblicazione
2005
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0275987191
ISBN 13 
9780275987190
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
208
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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