Critical Insights: Ray Bradbury

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2018

ISBN13

9781682175729

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Ray Bradbury and the critical discussions surrounding his work, this volume explores the work of a towering figure in American Science Fiction. Essay topics include: Utopian/dystopian robotic technologies; Translocality in The Martian Chronicles; Faith and Reason in Fahrenheit 451.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On Ray Bradbury and His Works.
Ray Douglas Bradbury.
Critical Contexts.
1: Big Brother, Little Sister: Ray Bradbury, Social Pressure, and the Challenges to Free Speech.
2: From Dark Carnival to “Carnivalization”: The Critical Reception of Ray Bradbury's Works.
3: Housewives and Witches: Finding Feminism in Ray Bradbury's Fiction.
4: From “Halloween Was Outlawed and Christmas Was Banned!” to “You Can Stay Happy All the Time”: Shifting Impetuses for Book Burning from “The Exiles” and “Usher II” to Fahrenheit 451.
Critical Readings.
5: Reading Ray Bradbury's Literary Libraries.
6: Faith and Religion in the Novels of Ray Bradbury.
7: A Golem in the Family: Robotic Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Ray Bradbury's Short Stories.
8: Nuclear Myths in Ray Bradbury's Short Stories.
9: The Magician's Toyshop: Watching The Ray Bradbury Theater.
10: Writing a Life: The Stylistics of Ray Bradbury's Autobiographical Novels.
11: Books as Metaphors in The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
12: Space and Translocality: Revisiting Ray Bradbury's Mars.
13: Down to Earth: Mundane Concerns and Marginalized Individuals in Ray Bradbury's Rocket Stories.
Resources.
Chronology.
Major Works.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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