Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of speculative fictions: non-mimetic works that start from the implied question 'what if?'

List of contents

Introduction: Aesthetics, Instabilities, and Imaginings
1 Alternative Worlds and Histories
2 Preserved in Ice
3 Arctic Futures
Conclusion: Writing and Imagining the Arctic

About the author

Maria Lindgren Leavenworth Professor of Modern English Literature, Department of Language Studies, Umeå University.

Summary

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of speculative fictions: non-mimetic works that start from the implied question ‘what if?’

Product details

• Authors: Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Leavenworth Maria Lindgren
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032409689
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240968-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; FICTION / Fantasy / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, The environment, Literary studies: general