Eric S. Rabkin
Autor de Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories
Sobre El Autor
Eric S. Rabkin teaches in the Department of English at the University of Michigan.
Series
Obras de Eric S. Rabkin
Bridges to Fantasy: Essays from the Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (Alternatives) (1982) — Editor — 9 copias
No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (Alternatives) (1983) — Editor — 9 copias
Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science… (1993) — Editor — 8 copias
Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1996) — Editor — 4 copias
Form in Fiction; An Introduction to the Analysis of Narrative Prose (1974) — Joint Author. — 4 copias
Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works (The Great Courses, Part 1 of 2) (2007) 3 copias
幻想と文学 (KEY LIBRARY) 1 copia
Franz Kafka - Dashed Fantasies 1 copia
Effective Writing 1 copia
Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's Most Fantastic Works (The Great Courses, Part 1 of 2) (2007) 1 copia
The Fantastic in Literature 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1946
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Premios y honores
- SFRA Pilgrim Award (2010)
Miembros
Reseñas
Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind: Literature's… por 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.
½
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.… (más)
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.… (más)
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- Miembros
- 704
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- #35,974
- Valoración
- 4.1
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