Phoenix From The Ashes

by Carl B. Yoke, Carl B. Yoke (Other)

Overview

This interesting and unusual collection of essays explores the post-holocaust theme as it has been treated in science fiction and fantasy literature. Seen in a positive mode, this theme offers a powerful metaphor for exploring man's relationship to his social structure. The post-holocaust motif, the editor contends, literally permits the exploration of many sub-topics, such as rebirth, social patterns, evolution, devolution, entropy, history, ecology, ethics, medicine, personal values, and so on.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313243288
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/13/1987
Series:	Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Series , #30
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)

About the Author

CARL B. YOKE is Associate Professor of English, and Assistant to the Associate Vice President of the Extended University, Kent State University, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Phoenix from the Ashes Rising: An Introduction by Carl B. Yoke

A Psychological Analysis of the Myth of the Remade World by Carl Goldberg

Alas, Babylon and On the Beach: Antiphons of the Apocalypse by C.W.Sullivan III

The Revival of Learning: Science after the Nuclear Holocaust in Science Fiction by Paul Brians

Deaths by Drowning by Joe Sanders

From Ashes Comes the Cuckoo: Character and Myth in Postholocaust Narratives by William Lomax

Intellectual Power in H.G.Wells' The World Set Free by Nadine S. St. Louis

Weinbaum's Fire from the Ashes: The Postdisaster Civilization of the Black Flame by Edgar L. Chapman

Future Imperfect: Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow by Donna M. DeBlasio

To Play the Phoenix: Medieval Images and Cycles of Rebuilding in Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz by Thomas P. Dunn

The Death of the Heart in Level 7 by Carolyn Wendell

Not with a Bang but with a Whimper: Anticatastrophic Elements in Vance's Dying Earth by Gregory M. Shreve

J.G.Ballard: We Are the Survivors by Judith B. Kerman

"Argument Not Less but More Heroic": Epic, Order, and Postholocaust Society in Piers Anthony's Battle Circle by Michael R. Collings

Mythic Hells in Harlan Ellison's Science Fiction by Joseph Francavilla

Bernard Malamud and Russell Hoban: Manipulating the Apocalypse by Theodore L. Steinberg

Dominant Sociological Themes in Paul Anderson's Orion Shall Rise by Harold Lee Prosser

The Days After: Films on Nuclear Aftermath by Wyn Wachorst

Do Androids Dream of Ridley Scott? by David Desser

The Road Warrior: Self and Society in the Rebuilding Process by Thomas P. Dunn

Bibliography for Remade World Literature: Background, Criticism, and Fiction by Paul Brians, Thomas P. Dunn, Marshall Tymn, and Carl B. Yoke

Filmography for Remade World Literature by Carl B. Yoke

Index

About the Editor and Contributors