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科幻研究最新目录
2005/07/26 幻想的边疆
SCIENCE-FICTION STUDIES (ISSN: 0091-7729)
Issue:Vol. 32
Number of Articles in Issue:23
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*Pages: 5-17 (Article)
Title:Jules Verne: Negotiating change in the nineteenth century
Authors:Unwin, T
Abstract:Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires are among the finest documents we possess of a nineteenth-century world whose technologies and lifestyles were being
transformed. This, article highlights two major aspects of Jules Verne's awareness and negotiation of change in his own century. First, it stresses that if he did "foresee" anything, it was less an era of futuristic inventions than
one in which the abuse of technology leads to division and conflict. Second, it emphasizes the impact of Jules Verne's preoccupation with scientific change on his concept of the novel, arguing that he contributes very significantly to the
evolution of the form. In Jules Verne's hands, the novel becomes an instrument with which to look at a new and evolving world, but an instrument that itself is
subject to the law of change. The article concludes by affirming that, far from being seen as an unliterary author, Jules Verne redefines the notion of what
literature is or can be.
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*Pages: 18-42 (Article)
Title: Verne's cartographies (Jules Verne)
Authors: Harpold, T
Abstract: This essay offers an analysis of the literary and narrative functions of the maps and other related design elements of the illustrated Hetzel editions of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. I argue that the complexity and originality of the play of word and image in these texts represent one of the signal achievements of Verne and his publishers. Taken as a whole, the Voyages
are among the most accomplished and evocative reflections in modern fiction on the relations of the alphabetic text to its graphic counterparts.
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*Pages: 43-60 (Article)
Title: Hidden treasures: The manuscripts of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues' (Jules Verne)
Authors: Butcher, W
Abstract: This first study of the manuscripts of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas shows that before the publisher's harrowing censorship, the antepenultimate
chapter of the novel was radically different. In the earlier drafts Captain Nemo supports the French Revolution and Republican ideas, and the ship he attacks, in egitimate self-defense, is French. In the original "Conclusion," Nemo survives and is not criticized by the egregious Aronnax, but rather praised as the ultimate free man. In the light of these variants, changing the ideological tenor of the novel, it would appear increasingly urgent to have further detailed textual knowledge of the publisher's censorship, so as to understand Verne's real intentions in writing his masterpieces.
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*Pages: 61-79 (Article)
Title: Why they kill Jules Verne: SF and Cartesian culture
Authors: Slusser, G
Abstract: Bernard Blanc's book Why I Killed Jules Verne, and its radical premise (that Verne the tyrannical "father" of sf must be killed so that his progeny, the new French writers of the late 1970s, can reclaim science fiction as their own terrain of activity) is symptomatic of a broader cultural attitude toward Verne and the materialist science he is seen to embody. This essay explores the cultural implications of the paternity of Verne and subsequent attempts to assassinate him in the context of a culture fascinated not only with tyrants and regicide but also with the mechanisms of the Cartesian cogito, itself a means,
through its method of doubt, of stripping away material extension in order to assert the counter-reign of mind at the center of a hostile physical world. It argues that, because Verne in the eyes of French culture has become the icon of material science and technology, he must be killed if the cogito, representing the human privilege of mind, is to claim parity agai! nst the mindless mass of matter. The article explores this killing act in broad cultural manifestations from newspaper advertisements to commentary by Roland Barthes and Michel Serres. It concludes that the killing of Verne represents a defining act both in terms of French sf and of persistent French attitudes toward science itself.
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*Pages: 80-104 (Article)
Title: Jules Verne's English translations
Authors: Evans, AB
Abstract: This article offers a detailed comparison of the original French editions of Jules Verne's Voyages raordinaires and their English translations. Many of
Verne's most popular novels were severely abridged, simplified, and ideologically censored in their English-language versions. Several of these bowdlerized translations became the "standard" editions of Verne's works in the UK and the US and are still being published today. As a result, most anglophone readers of Verne have never had the opportunity to read the real Verne. It seems
clear that these poor translations are largely responsible for Verne's reputation in anglophone countries as a prescient but non-literary writer of adventure stories for children. More modern and accurate English translations of
Verne's oeuvre are needed to correct this misconception.
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*Pages: 142-149 (Article)
Title: Translating Verne: An extraordinary journey (Jules Verne)
Authors: Hernandez, TJ
Abstract: Translating Jules Verne's 1903 "Caribbean novel" called Bourses de voyage (Travel Scholarships) has been a challenging and a rewarding experience.
Rendering Verne's technical style into English demands both effort and care, but I have found his sensitivity and attention to detail in describing the native cultures of these islands as well as his critique of European olonialism in the region to be very impressive and highly unusual for an author of his historical period.
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*Pages: 163-171 (Article)
Title: Verne to Varley: Hard SF evolves (Jules Verne, John Varley)
Authors: Benford, G
Abstract: Hard sf can be said to begin with Verne. Its agenda he largely set, and a long line descends through Heinlein to Varley and many others. All had a satiric edge
to many of their works and respected the constraints of the known science of their time. Verne's influence has been enormous, perhaps most in the United States. Varley's cheerful sex changes can be seen as an extension of the Verne tinkerer-explorer, combined with Heinlein's experimental attitude toward sex itself.
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*Pages: 201-202 (Book Review)
Title: The utopian fantastic: Selected essays from the Twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
Authors: Ostry, E
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*Pages: 202-205 (Book Review)
Title: Visions of the apocalypse: Spectacles of destruction in American cinema.
Authors: Williams, P
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*Pages: 205-206 (Book Review)
Title: Brazilian science fiction: Cultural myths and nationhood in the land of the future.
Authors: Rambo, J
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*Pages: 206-208 (Book Review)
Title: A routledge literary sourcebook on Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN
Authors: Emmerichs, S
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*Pages: 208-210 (Book Review)
Title: 'Skylark three'.
Authors: Sanders, J
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*Pages: 210-212 (Book Review)
Title: Snake's-hands: The fiction of John Crowley.
Authors: Ekman, S
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*Pages: 212-213 (Book Review)
Title: Attending Daedalus: Gene wolfe, artifice and the reader.
Authors:[Anon]
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*Pages: 213-217 (Book Review)
Title:Deluge
Authors: Kincaid, P
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