Narrating Futures...
Multi-volumed work
Narrating Futures
Ed. by Bode, Christoph
Ed. by Bode, Christoph
Volume 5
Singles, Kathleen
Alternate History
Playing with Contingency and Necessity
Aims and Scope
While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives.
The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N, Christian Kracht's Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten, and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.
- 23 x 15.5 cm
- Approx. 360 pages
- 20 Fig.
- Language:
- English
- Type of Publication:
- Monograph
- Keywords:
- History; Future; Past; Narrative
- Readership:
- Scholars of Literary and Cultural Studies.
- Subjects
- Literary Studies > Literary Theory
- Literary Studies > German Literature > 20th Century
- Literary Studies > British and American Literature > 18th - 20th Centuries
- Literary Studies > Literary Theory
- Literary Studies > German Literature > 20th Century
- Literary Studies > British and American Literature > 18th - 20th Centuries
- Literary Studies > Literary Theory
- Literary Studies > German Literature > 20th Century
- Literary Studies > British and American Literature > 18th - 20th Centuries