Eric S. Rabkin
Auteur van Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories
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Eric S. Rabkin teaches in the Department of English at the University of Michigan.
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Bridges to Fantasy: Essays from the Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (Alternatives) (1982) — Redacteur — 9 exemplaren
No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (Alternatives) (1983) — Redacteur — 9 exemplaren
Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science… (1993) — Redacteur — 8 exemplaren
Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1996) — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
Form in Fiction; An Introduction to the Analysis of Narrative Prose (1974) — Joint Author. — 4 exemplaren
Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works (The Great Courses, Part 1 of 2) (2007) 3 exemplaren
幻想と文学 (KEY LIBRARY) 1 exemplaar
Franz Kafka - Dashed Fantasies 1 exemplaar
Robbe-Grillet - Experimental Fiction and Myth 1 exemplaar
Woolf - Fantastic Feminism and Periods of Art 1 exemplaar
H.G.Wells - We Are All Talking Animals 1 exemplaar
Lewis Carroll - Puzzles, Language and Audience 1 exemplaar
Poe - Genres and Degrees of the Fantastic 1 exemplaar
Hoffman and the Theory of the Fantastic 1 exemplaar
Propp, Structure, and Cultural Identity 1 exemplaar
The Brothers Grimm and Fairy Tale Psychology 1 exemplaar
Effective Writing 1 exemplaar
Science Fictrion: A Historical Anthology 1 exemplaar
Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works (The Great Courses, Part 1 of 2) (2007) 1 exemplaar
The Fantastic in Literature 1 exemplaar
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- 1946
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- New York, New York, USA
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- SFRA Pilgrim Award (2010)
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Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's… door Eric S. Rabkin
An interesting overview of fantasy and science fiction literature. The first half of the course looks at the development of imaginative fiction since the Grimms and Mary Shelley, and refers back to their literary antecedents. The second half focuses on science fiction. Excellent.
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What an interesting selection.
One of my coworkers is an early scifi geek, which is cool; he was telling me about this Hoffman guy. This thing has, like, Hawthorne in it. Just a neat way of looking at it.
One of my coworkers is an early scifi geek, which is cool; he was telling me about this Hoffman guy. This thing has, like, Hawthorne in it. Just a neat way of looking at it.
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AlCracka | Apr 2, 2013 |
AlCracka | Apr 2, 2013 | 
Highlights: Voltaire, Hawthorne, Bellamy, London, Stapledon, Asimov, Bradbury, Keyes, Zelazny
Avoid: Gernsback, Finney, Pohl, Ellison, Sheckley
Some disappointing stuff in here (not one of Arthur C Clarke's strongest ideas), but then any kind of historical anthology is bound to demonstrating evolution and the thematic concerns of the genre as well as to quality. Very interesting to see how the earliest writers use other worlds to examine our own, a technique which is still going strong, but technology, its possibilities and threats, becomes so dominant.… (meer)
Avoid: Gernsback, Finney, Pohl, Ellison, Sheckley
Some disappointing stuff in here (not one of Arthur C Clarke's strongest ideas), but then any kind of historical anthology is bound to demonstrating evolution and the thematic concerns of the genre as well as to quality. Very interesting to see how the earliest writers use other worlds to examine our own, a technique which is still going strong, but technology, its possibilities and threats, becomes so dominant.… (meer)
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