| Description |
vii, 147 pages ; 24 cm |
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Modern critical interpretations.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 137) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Machines of joy and sorrow: rockets, time machines, robots, man vs. machine, Orwellian tales, and Fahrenheit 451 / Wayne L. Johnson -- Burning bright: Fahrenheit 451 as symbolic dystopia / Donald Watt -- Reverie and the marvelous: doublings of the self in The Martian chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 / William F. Touponce -- The post-apocalyptic library: oral and literate culture in Fahrenheit 451 and A canticle for Leibowitz / Susan Spencer -- The flight from the good life: Fahrenheit 451 in the context of postwar American dystopias / David Seed -- Ray Bradbury's Cold War novels / Kevin Hoskinson -- The imagery of hands in Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- What "carried the trick?" Mass exploitation and the decline of thought in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron -- "Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus?" The wilderness in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / Rafeeq O. McGiveron. |
| Subject |
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012. Fahrenheit 451.
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Censorship in literature.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0791059294 |
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