Alternate History

Playing with Contingency and Necessity
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-027217-8
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

Reihe: Narrating Futures, Volume 5

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Literary and Cultural Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singles, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Singles, Kathleen
Kathleen Singles, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Kathleen Singles, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Kathleen Singles, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.