Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology
Peter Fitting, Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Torontoregards this book as "somewhere between a hobby and an obsession," drawing, as itdoes, on his interest in literary utopias and science fiction. In it he traces the theme ofa subterranean world through some fi...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:121475 2023-05-15T13:49:03+02:00 Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology Haynes, RD 2006 application/pdf http://ecite.utas.edu.au/121475 en eng Nineteenth Century French Studies http://ecite.utas.edu.au/121475/1/Subterranean worlds.PDF Haynes, RD, Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology, Nineteenth Century French Studies, 34, (3&4) pp. 418-419. ISSN 1536-0172 (2006) [Review Single Work] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/121475 Language Communication and Culture Communication and Media Studies Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified Review Single Work NonPeerReviewed 2006 ftunivtasecite 2019-12-13T22:20:26Z Peter Fitting, Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Torontoregards this book as "somewhere between a hobby and an obsession," drawing, as itdoes, on his interest in literary utopias and science fiction. In it he traces the theme ofa subterranean world through some fifteen novels, from the anonymous Relation d'unvoyage du Pole Arctique au Pole Antarctique (1721) to Edgar Rice Burroughs's At theEarth's Core (1914). Each chapter offers a brief introduction, including a synopsis of thenarrative, followed by extracts from the novel, chosen to indicate how the adventurer-narratorarrived there, a description of the subterranean world, how it is illuminatedand, where appropriate, the society that exists there. Text Antarc* Antarctique* Arctique* eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) |
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Peter Fitting, Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Torontoregards this book as "somewhere between a hobby and an obsession," drawing, as itdoes, on his interest in literary utopias and science fiction. In it he traces the theme ofa subterranean world through some fifteen novels, from the anonymous Relation d'unvoyage du Pole Arctique au Pole Antarctique (1721) to Edgar Rice Burroughs's At theEarth's Core (1914). Each chapter offers a brief introduction, including a synopsis of thenarrative, followed by extracts from the novel, chosen to indicate how the adventurer-narratorarrived there, a description of the subterranean world, how it is illuminatedand, where appropriate, the society that exists there. |
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