Flowers of Time (eBook)

On Postapocalyptic Fiction

Mark Payne (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691206400 (ISBN)

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An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction-stories set after civilization's destruction-is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod's Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many others. Traveling from antiquity to the present, Flowers of Time reveals how postapocalyptic fiction differs from other genres-pastoral poetry, science fiction, and the maroon narrative-that also explore human capabilities beyond the constraints of civilization. Mark Payne places postapocalyptic fiction into conversation with such theorists as Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Carl Schmitt, illustrating how the genre functions as political theory in fictional form.Payne shows that rather than argue for a particular way of life, postapocalyptic literature reveals what it would be like to inhabit that life. He considers the genre's appeal in our own historical moment, contending that this fiction is the pastoral of our time. Whereas the pastoralist and the maroon could escape to real-world hills and fashion their own versions of freedom, on a fully owned and occupied Earth, only an apocalyptic event can create a space where such freedoms are feasible once again.Flowers of Time looks at how fictional narratives set after the world's devastation represent new conditions and possibilities for life and humanity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: A Canticle for Leibowitz • Agrarianism • Amitav Ghosh • Anachronism • Ancient • Apocalypse • Apocalypse and Post-Politics • apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction • Aristotle • autarky • backstory • Carl Schmitt • Catastrophe • catastrophism • Civilization • Claire Curtis • Committee on Social Thought • Consciousness • Cormac McCarthy • creation myth • David Brin • deep history • Dicaearchus • discourse on inequality • Earth Abides • Earthseed • Earthseed (novel) • Edward Shanks • Efflorescence • ethnography • extinction event • Fiction • Flourishing • Form of life (philosophy) • freedom • Friedrich Schiller • gamut • Genre • Gilgamesh • Greek Mythology • Heather Hicks • Hesiod • Human • Hunter-Gatherer • I Am Legend (novel) • Ideology • Indigenous peoples • Individualism • injunction • In the Country of Last Things • In This World • Irony • J. D. Beresford • Jim Crace • John Hay • Last and First Men • last man • lifeworld • literary fiction • Literary Realism • Literature • Looking Backward • MaddAddam • Margaret Atwood • maroon • Mary Manjikian • Mary Shelley • Memory • Modernity • M. P. Shiel • Myth • Mytheme • Narration • narrative • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Nature • Neolithic • Olaf Stapledon • Oryx and Crake • Parable of the Sower (novel) • Pastoral • Paul Auster • pessimism • Philosopher • philosophical training • Plotinus • Poetry • Post-Apocalyptic Culture • Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature • Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract • predation • Primitive • Primitivism • Princeton University Press • Robinsonade • Science Fiction • Self-Sufficiency • Slavery • Social organization • Sophocles • Speculative Fiction • star maker • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Survival • survivalism • survivalist anthropology • survivalist fiction • survival practice • survival skills • Symptom • Technology • Teresa Heffernan • Terminal Vision: The Literature of Last Things • the apocalyptic cosmos • The Last Man • Theory of Forms • The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century • The Survivalist (novel series) • The Various • Thought • Tribalism • Trojan War • University of Manchester • Ursula K. Le Guin • Ursula Le Guin • Warren Wagar • Works and Days • Writing • Zombie • Zone One
• ISBN-13: 9780691206400 / 9780691206400