The apocalyptic, pastoral, and urban traditions have fundamentally shaped Western history and influenced American religion, culture, and politics. This book argues that these traditions have not only been decisive in giving form and substance to classic and modern American literature, but have been appropriated by contemporary science fiction. As a loosely connected set of cultural narratives, the Cross, the Plow, and the Skyline have through the medium of science fiction provided a bold vista on the future grounded in an emergent ecological imagination. This challenging vision, the author claims, may yet settle into the New Millennium's cultural consciousness and inform an ecological politics dedicated to confronting the nation's and the world's social and environmental problems.
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This is a refreshing, imaginative, and insightful book. -- Michael E. Zimmerman, Professor and Chair, Philosophy, Michael E. Zimmerman, Professor and Chair, Philosophy, Tulane University
What is most enjoyable in this book is Yanarella's artful combination of critical theory with American science fiction. -- Tim Luke, Virginia Tech
What is most enjoyable in this book is Yanarella's artful combination of critical theory with American science fiction. -- Tim Luke, Virginia Tech
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Ernest J. Yanarella is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities at the University of Kentucky. The Cross, the Plow and the Skyline is his eighth book.
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Visions of an apocalyptic end of the world have long been a source of deep fear and enormous fascination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
egalitarian garden, pastoral science fiction, political pastoralism, socialist pastoral, urban science fiction, literary pastoralism, dirty science, critical political theory, contemporary science fiction writers, cultural surplus, planetary colonization, technological worldview, golden bottle, ecological doom, pastoral heritage, mass degradation, technocratic utopia, technological city, apocalyptic science fiction, ecological imagination, biblical apocalypse, science fiction works, pastoral utopia, utopian fiction, pastoral values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Oxford University Press, Looking Backward, Bantam Books, University of California Press, Caesar's Column, Ernst Bloch, Book of Revelation, Edward Bellamy, New England, San Francisco, Big Science, Ignatius Donnelly, Make Room, The Shockwave Rider, Edge of Time, Frederick Turner, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Long Tomorrow, University of Chicago Press, Ballantine Books, Central Park, Christopher Columbus, Indiana University Press New!
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egalitarian garden, pastoral science fiction, political pastoralism, socialist pastoral, urban science fiction, literary pastoralism, dirty science, critical political theory, contemporary science fiction writers, cultural surplus, planetary colonization, technological worldview, golden bottle, ecological doom, pastoral heritage, mass degradation, technocratic utopia, technological city, apocalyptic science fiction, ecological imagination, biblical apocalypse, science fiction works, pastoral utopia, utopian fiction, pastoral values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Oxford University Press, Looking Backward, Bantam Books, University of California Press, Caesar's Column, Ernst Bloch, Book of Revelation, Edward Bellamy, New England, San Francisco, Big Science, Ignatius Donnelly, Make Room, The Shockwave Rider, Edge of Time, Frederick Turner, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Long Tomorrow, University of Chicago Press, Ballantine Books, Central Park, Christopher Columbus, Indiana University Press New!
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- Looking Backward (Signet Classics) by Edward Bellamy on 11 pages
- Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy on 7 pages
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) by Walter M. Miller Jr. on 7 pages
- Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, Book 2) by Kim Stanley Robinson on 6 pages
- Metamorphoses of Science Fiction by Darko Suvin on 4 pages
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