Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment

This head volume of the ´Narrating Futures` series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete manifestations across the media. Drawing on different theorems and approaches,...

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Main Author: Bode, Christoph (auth)
Other Authors: Dietrich, Rainer (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: De Gruyter 2013
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Summary:This head volume of the ´Narrating Futures` series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete manifestations across the media. Drawing on different theorems and approaches, it offers a unified theory and a poetics of Future Narratives. Locating the media-historical moment of their emergence, this volume paves the way for the following volumes, which deal with how Future Narratives are refracted through different media.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (237 p.)
ISBN:9783110272376
9783110272123
Access:Open Access