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Phoenix from the Ashes: The Literature of the Remade World

Carl B. Yoke

First published 1987
Publisher Greenwood Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages ix+247
Price $39.95
ISBN 031324328X

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Phoenix from the Ashes Rising: An Introduction Carl B. Yoke Essay
13 A Psychological Analysis of the Myth of the Remade World Carl Goldberg Essay
37 Alas, Babylon and on the Beach: Antiphons of the Apocalypse C. W. Sullivan, III Essay
45 The Revival of Learning: Science After the Nuclear Holocaust in Science Fiction Paul Brians Essay
55 Deaths by Drowning Joe Saunders Essay
65 From the Ashes Comes the Cuckoo: Character and Myth in Postholocaust Narratives William Lomax Essay
75 Intellectual Power in H.G. Wells' The World Set Free Nadine S. St. Louis Essay
85 Wienbaum's Fire from the Ashes: The Postdisaster Civilization of the Black Flame Edgar L. Chapman Essay
97 Future Imperfect: Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow Donna M. Deblasio Essay
105 To Play the Phoenix: Medieval Images and Cycles of Rebuilding in Walter Miller's a Canticle for Leibowitz Thomas P. Dunn Essay
117 The Death of the Heart in Level 7 Carolyn Wendell Essay
125 Not with a Bang But with a Whimper: Anticastastrophic Elements in Vance's Dying Earth Gregory M. Shreve Essay
133 J.G. Ballard: We Are the Survivors Judith B. Kerman Essay
145 "Argument Not Less But More Heroic": Epic, Order, and Postholocaust Society in Piers Anthony's Battle Circle Michael R. Collings Essay
156 Mythic Hells in Harlan Ellison's Science Fiction Joseph Francavilla Essay
165 Bernard Malamud and Russell Hoban: Manipulating the Apocalypse Theodore L. Steinberg Essay
173 Dominant Sociological Themes in Poul Anderson's Orion Shall Rise Harold Lee Prosser Essay
177 The Days After: Films on Nuclear Aftermath Wyn Wachhorst Essay
193 Do Androids Dream of Ridley Scott? David Desser Essay
201 The Road Warrior: Self and Society in the Rebuilding Process Thomas P. Dunn Essay
207 Bibliography for Remade World Literature: Background, Criticism, and Fiction Paul Brians & Thomas P. Dunn & Marshall Tymn & Carl B. Yoke Essay
233 Filmography for Remade World Literature Carl B. Yoke Essay