Coincidence and counterfactuality : plotting time and space in narrative fiction

Frontiers of narrative

Frontiers of narrative.

Narrative after deconstruction

Narrative Turn -- Deconstruction and the Worldly Text -- Search for Form in American Postmodern Fiction -- General or Limited Narrative Theory? -- Resisting Post-Deconstructive Space -- Reading Time -- Struggling with Objects -- Narrative and Post-Deconstructive Ethics.

Science fiction : the best of the year

The year in science fiction / Triceratops summer / Bank run / A coffee cup/Alien invasion story / The edge of nowhere / Heartwired / The fate of mice / The king of where-I-go / The policeman's daughter / Bliss / Finished / The inn at Mount Either / Search engine / "You" by Anonymous / The Jenna set / Understanding space and time

Seventy-five : the diamond anniversary of a science fiction pioneer

Novels. Selections

Scientifiction, searchlight of science -- The metal man -- The crystal castle -- Golden blood (excerpt) -- The legion of space (excerpt) -- The red beak of thoth / The legion of time (excerpt) -- Collision orbit -- The Rajah McCarthy and the jungle tomato -- With folded hands -- Beyond mars / A Jack Williamson chronology -- The happiest creature -- H.G. Wells: critic of progress -- Jamboree -- The next century of science fiction -- People machines: hints for design and assembly -- Previews of hell -- Demon moon (excerpt) -- The firefly tree -- The ultimate earth.

The end that does : art, science, and millennial accomplishment

Millennialism and society ;

Will (poem) / In/tensions / The pharmakon of the apocalypse / The merit of time : a genealogy of the countdown / Postcard I (poem) / Collecting the cosmos : the apocalypse of the ancient library / Giordano Bruno and the rewriting of the heavens / Francis Bacon's scientific apocalypse / Promise (poem) / The elusive Isis : theosophy and the mirror of millennialism / Promiseland : utopian technology and the American millennial dream / Postcard II (poem) / The end is still near : the eternal apocalypse of the tabloids / Christian apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, and technology / Unto (Rose Window, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris) / Y2KO to Y2OK / Cloister (poem) / Respite (poem) / The Space Needle hits the road : the portability of home, landmark and memorial / Ultima Thule--the city at the end of the world : Jerusalem in the modern Christian apocalyptic / International radio

Futurescapes : space in utopian and science fiction discourses

Spatial practices,

Spatial practices ;

Introduction : the overlaid spaces of utopia / Constructing borders, defining limits : the ideal space of utopia revisited. The translation of paradise : Thomas More's Utopia and the poetics of cultural exchange / Utopia, nation-building, and the dissolution of the nation-state around 1900 / Discoveries of the future : Herbert G. Wells and the eugenic utopia / Persistence of obedience : theological space and ritual conversion in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Homely spaces, intimate borders : utopias to live in. 'And is not every manor a little common wealth?' : nostalgia, utopia and the country house / The watchdogs of Eden : Chesterton and Buchan look at the present of the future / The land that time forgot : fictions of Antarctic temporality / "The tower of babble"? : the role and function of fictive languages in utopian and dystopian fiction / Worlds beyond worlds : the limits of geographical and perceptual space. Rethinking deterritorialization : utopian and apocalyptic space in recent American fiction / Space construction as cultural practice : reading William Gibson's Neuromancer with respect to postmodern concepts of space / Peripheral cosmopolitans : Caribbeanness as transnational utopia? / "Utopian and cynical elements" : Chaplin, cinema, and Weimar critical theory

The feminine subject in children's literature

Children's literature and culture ;

Theoretical Introduction: The feminine in Children's Literature -- Lacan and the Subject -- The Speaking Subject: "other" and "Other" -- The Psycho-Dynamics of Text/Reader Relations -- Literary Transference -- The Textual Unconscious -- The feminine Fantastic -- Writing the Subject in Children's Literature: l'ecriture feminine -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- The Tricksters -- The feminine in Metafictional Mode -- Desire in Writing -- The feminine Fantastic -- The feminine Carnivalesque -- The Incest Taboo -- The Gaze -- The feminine Intertextual Space -- The Elemental feminine -- L'ecriture feminine -- The Other Side of Silence -- Language, Madness and The feminine -- Fictional Selves/Self as Fiction -- The-Name-of-The-Father -- The feminine and Abjection -- L'ecriture feminine -- Reading the Mother in Children's Literature: le parler femme -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- Pictures in the Dark -- Abjection and Return -- Women's Time -- Semiotizing the Symbolic -- Body Language -- The Tricksters and The Other Side of Silence -- Monstrous Mothers -- The Maternal feminine -- Dangerous Spaces -- Speaking the Body -- The Changeover -- The Looking Glass from the Other Side -- The feminine Imaginary and the Witch -- Discourse of le parler femme -- The feminine Postmodern Subject in Children's Literature -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- Memory -- The feminine Postmodern Landscapes -- Wolf -- Fragmented Subjectivity -- Cultural Nostalgia -- The Hyperreal.

Baltic postcolonialism

On the boundary of two worlds ;

Introduction: Baltic postcolonialism and its critics / Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet?: towards a global postcolonial critique / Fusions of discourse: postcolonial/postmodern horizons in Baltic culture / A Soviet experience of our own: comprehension and the surrounding silence / Postcolonial change: power, Peru and Estonian literature / Nazi and Soviet dysphemism and euphemism in Latvian / Toward a postcolonial perspective on the Baltic States / Learning to curse in Russian: mimicry in Siberian exile / Estonia's time and monumental time / The sieve and the honeycomb: features of contemporary Lithuanian cultural time and space / Perceptions of the self and the other in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Viivi Luik's "The beauty of history": aestheticized violence and the postcolonial in the contemporary Estonian novel / Searching for national allegories in Lithuanian prose: Saulius Tomas Kondrotas's "The slow birth of nation" / Dalia Cidzikaitė -- Estonia and pain: Jaan Kross's "The czar's madman" / Postcolonial subjectivity in Latvia: some signs in literature / Labyrinths of meaning in Aleksandrs Pelēcis' "Siberia book" and Agate Nesaule's "Woman in Amber": a postmodern/postcolonial reading / Interstitial histories: Ene Mihkelson's "Labor of naming" / Lithuanian prose and decolonization: rediscovery of the body / Conflicted consciousness: Jaan Kaplinski and the legacy of intra-European postcolonialism in Estonia / Foot-loose and fancy-free: the postcolonial Lithuanian encounters Europe

Baltic postcolonialism

On the boundary of two worlds ;

On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics.

Introduction: Baltic postcolonialism and its critics / Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet?: towards a global postcolonial critique / Fusions of discourse: postcolonial/postmodern horizons in Baltic culture / A Soviet experience of our own: comprehension and the surrounding silence / Postcolonial change: power, Peru and Estonian literature / Nazi and Soviet dysphemism and euphemism in Latvian / Toward a postcolonial perspective on the Baltic States / Learning to curse in Russian: mimicry in Siberian exile / Estonia's time and monumental time / The sieve and the honeycomb: features of contemporary Lithuanian cultural time and space / Perceptions of the self and the other in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Viivi Luik's "The beauty of history": aestheticized violence and the postcolonial in the contemporary Estonian novel / Searching for national allegories in Lithuanian prose: Saulius Tomas Kondrotas's "The slow birth of nation" / Dalia Cidzikaitė -- Estonia and pain: Jaan Kross's "The czar's madman" / Postcolonial subjectivity in Latvia: some signs in literature / Labyrinths of meaning in Aleksandrs Pelēcis' "Siberia book" and Agate Nesaule's "Woman in Amber": a postmodern/postcolonial reading / Interstitial histories: Ene Mihkelson's "Labor of naming" / Lithuanian prose and decolonization: rediscovery of the body / Conflicted consciousness: Jaan Kaplinski and the legacy of intra-European postcolonialism in Estonia / Foot-loose and fancy-free: the postcolonial Lithuanian encounters Europe

Abarat

Abarat ;

The Named

The door within

Door within trilogy ;