Charles De Paolo

Human Prehistory in Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

What was the world like for people thousands of years ago? How can we know? Through fiction? This is a work of literary criticism, and more. It begins with a discussion of the problem of authenticity and then considers twelve pieces of fiction that depict human prehistory: H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau, Pierre Boulle's The Planet of the Apes, Jules Verne's The Village in the Treetops, Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot, the struggle for legitimacy in Wells' "The Grisly Folk," the Tasmanian analogue in Lester Del Rey's "The Day Is Done," William Golding's The Inheritors, "the promise of humanity" in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the theme of "a god among the heathen" in Wells' "The Lord of the Dynamos" and other works, Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear, J.H. Rosny-Aine's Quest for Fire, and Wells' The Time Machine: An Invention. A final chapter considers the paleoanthropologist as literary critic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9780786414178
• ISBN-10: 0786414170
• Artikelnr.: 21625300

Autorenporträt

Charles De Paolo, the author of numerous books, is a professor of English at Manhattan Community College, the City University of New York. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments    
Abbreviations    
Introduction    
1 Heterogony and H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau    
2 "A point in common": Pierre Boulle's The Planet of the Apes    
3 Chains and Links: Jules Verne's The Village in the Treetops    
4 Phylosynthesis in Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot   
5 H.G. Wells's "The Grisly Folk": The Struggle for Legitimacy    
6 Lester Del Rey's "The Day Is Done" and the Tasmanian Analogue    
7 William Golding's The Inheritors: The Great Divide    
8 Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey: "the promise of humanity"   
9 H.G. Wells's "The Lord of the Dynamos" and Related Works: "a god among
the heathen"  
10 Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear: "defining the point"    
11 J-H Rosny-Aîné's Quest for Fire: The Archaic Twilight    
12 H.G. Wells's The Time Machine: The Days of Triumph    
13 The Paleoanthropologist as Literary Critic    
Works Cited    
Index