Speculative Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speculative Fictions write by Herb Wyile. This book was released on 2002-02-18. Speculative Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Herb Wyile provides a comparative analysis of the historical concerns and textual strategies of twenty novels published since the appearance of Rudy Wiebe's groundbreaking The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973. Drawing on the work of theorists and critics such as Hayden White, Mikhail Bakhtin, Fredric Jameson, Linda Hutcheon, and Michel De Certeau, Speculative Fictions examines the nature of these novels' engagement with Canadian history, historiography, and the writing of historical fiction. In the 1970s and early 1980s, writers such as Wiebe, Joy Kogawa, and Timothy Findley set the stage for a predominantly postcolonial and postmodern interrogation of traditional conceptions of Canadian history, the writing of history and fiction, and the idea of nation. Through his comparative approach, Wyile emphasizes the ways in which this spirit has been sustained in more recent historical novels by Jane Urquhart, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Tom Wharton, Margaret Atwood, and others. He concludes that the writing of history in English-Canadian fiction over the last thirty years makes a substantial contribution to a revisioning of history and to a postcolonial renegotiation of Canada and Canadian society as we enter into a new century.
Speculative Fictions
Speculative Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speculative Fictions write by Elizabeth Hewitt. This book was released on 2020-06-26. Speculative Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature. By studying Hamilton as an economic and imaginative writer, it argues that we can recast the conflict with the Jeffersonians as a literary debate about the best way to explain and describe modern capitalism, and explores how various other literary forms allow us to comprehend the complexities of a modern global economy in entirely new ways. Speculative Fictions identifies two overlooked literary genres of the late eighteenth-century as exemplary of this narrative mode. It asks that we read periodical essays and Black Atlantic captivity narratives with an eye not towards bourgeois subject formation, but as descriptive analyses of economic systems. In doing so, we discover how these two literary genres offer very different portraits of a global economy than that rendered by the novel, the imaginative genre we are most likely to associate with modern capitalism. Developing an aesthetic appreciation for the speculative, digressive, and unsystematic plotlines of these earlier narratives has the capacity to generate new imaginative projects with which to make sense of our increasingly difficult economic world.
Netflix’s Speculative Fictions
Netflix’s Speculative Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Netflix’s Speculative Fictions write by Colin Jon Mark Crawford. This book was released on 2020-12-10. Netflix’s Speculative Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Netflix’s Speculative Fictions: Financializing Platform Television argues that Netflix’s scaled expansion has hinged upon its ability not only to create, but more importantly to communicate, new forms and flows of potential value in platform capitalism, wherein capital is mobilized not only from direct revenue streams but also the new value assigned to inputs and investments of data, debt, attention, behavior, taste, time, sociality, and speculation. To interpret and critique these new communications and projections of value, Colin Jon Mark Crawford performs a discursive analysis of the platform television industry leader Netflix and its ‘investor lore’: the multi-sited narrative of value found in the company’s investor relations materials and corporate communications, such as letters to shareholders, financial earnings reports, executive interviews, press releases, and blog posts. Netflix best represents the increasingly ubiquitous nexus of culture, tech, and finance industries that is platform television. To better understand the emergent financial logics of this relatively new media industry, we must first understand the speculative narratives and discourses of value which organize it. Scholars of media studies, television studies, technology studies, and economics will find this book particularly useful.
New Suns
New Suns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Suns write by Nisi Shawl. This book was released on 2019-03-12. New Suns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Multiple award-winning anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races Winner of the 2020 Locus Award for best Anthology, Winner of Best Anthology, World Fantasy Awards 2020, Nominated for Best Anthology, Ignyte Awards 2020, Winner of the Brave New Words Award 2020 "There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book’s covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings. These are authors aware of our many possible pasts and futures, authors freed of stereotypes and clichés, ready to dazzle you with their daring genius. Unexpected brilliance shines forth from every page. Including stories by Indrapramit Das, E Lily Yu, Rebecca Roanhorse, Anil Menon, Jaymee Goh and many others. Introduction by Levar Burton. “This book’s wide range of stories is its greatest strength; though no reader will love them all, every reader will find something worth rereading.” -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
Elements
Elements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elements write by Suzanne Church. This book was released on 2014-04-30. Elements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Award winning author Suzanne Church’s cast of distinct characters asks “What if?” in this collection of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Church infuses emotion into every tale. Whether quirky or horrific, the prose deftly snatches the reader onto a whirlwind expedition of laughter and sorrow. This collection includes 21 stories and an introduction by award winning author, editor, and poet, Sandra Kasturi.
