The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781032409665 / Twarda / 2023 / 200 str.

Maria Lindgren Leavenworth

Opis

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?’

Spis treści

Introduction: Aesthetics, Instabilities, and Imaginings

1 Alternative Worlds and Histories

2 Preserved in Ice

3 Arctic Futures

Conclusion: Writing and Imagining the Arctic

O autorze

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