Science Fiction and the Cold Warwilliam empsonschematic accountapproachreadersliteraturewilliam empson;schematic account;approach;readers;literaturedoi:10.1002/9780470997055.ch12M. Keith BookerBlackwell Publishing LtdBooker, M. Keith. "Science Fiction and the Cold War." A Companion to Science Fiction. Ed....
Half a century after the CIA’s Secret War in Laos—the largest bombing campaign in history—explosive remnants of war continue to be part of people’s everyday lives. InBomb ChildrenLeah Zani offers a perceptive analysis of the long-term, often subtle, and unintended effects of massive air ...
One would be hard-pressed to find an era more inhospitable to either Christianity or humanism than that of the nascent Cold War in France, which severely tested affirmations of both perspectives. First, and doubtless most formidable, was the challenge of history. The devastating carnage of World...
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American Science Fiction - in both literature and film - has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. The end of this era heralds the need for a reassessment of the literary output of the forty-year period since 1945. Working through a series of importan...
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Jump for freedom: The stranger-than-fiction tale of Lithuanian defector Simas Kudirka Nikola Đorđević November 23, 1970, was supposed to be a relatively ordinary day for the US coast guard cutter Vigilant. That morning, the cutter was carrying a five member delegation... ...
Beginning with the writings created during the Spanish Civil War, th... Caute,David - 《New Statesman》 被引量: 18发表: 2010年 Age of extremes In this article the author discusses political fiction and nonfiction of the Cold War. Beginning with the writings created during the Spanish Civil ...
This chapter discusses Central American Cold War literature by focusing on its main forms (poetry, testimonio , prose fiction) and its main concerns (US involvement, dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, militancy, ideology and trauma). The main argument is that Central American literature presentsthe Cold...
booster rocketwith mechanical arms on its return from a test flight, potentially making interplanetary travel easier than ever. Space exploration has been much in the news this month — but, as two new books remind us, it also gripped the public’s imagination at the height of the cold war...