Name: Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions, the (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) (en Inglés)
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Author: Puertas Alberto J. Quiroga,Olabarria Leire
ISBN: 9781350281622

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Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions, the (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Bloomsbury Academic

Autor

Puertas Alberto J. Quiroga,Olabarria Leire

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm

Peso

0.54

ISBN13

9781350281622

Categorías

Mundo antiguo
Estudios literarios: antiguos, clásicos y medievales
Historia antigua

Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions, the (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) (en Inglés)

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Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters look into the question of chance versus determinism in the unfolding of historical events, the role individuals play in shaping a society or occasion, and the way art and literature symbolise important messages in counterfactual histories. They also show how uchronic narratives can take advantage of modern literary techniques to reveal new and relevant aspects of the past, giving voices to marginalised minorities and suppressed individuals of the ancient world.Counterfactual fiction and uchronic narratives have been largely up until now the domain of literary critics. However, these modes of literature are here analysed by scholars of Ancient History, Egyptology and Classics, shedding important new light on how cultures of the ancient world have been (and still are) perceived, and to what extent our conceptions of the past are used to explore alternate presents and futures. Alternate history entices the imagination of the public by suggesting hypothetical scenarios that never occurred, underlining a latent tension between reality and imagination, and between determinism and contingency. This interest has resulted in a growing number of publications that gauge the impact of what-if narratives, and this one is the first to give scholars of the ancient world centre-stage.