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Title:
Ray Bradbury / editor, Rafeeq O. McGiveron (Lansing Community College).
Author:
McGiveron, Rafeeq O., editor.
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2017]

©2017
Call Number:
PS3503.R167 Z739 2017
Abstract:
Explores the work of a towering figure in American Science Fiction. Essays topics include: Utopian/dystopian robotic technologies, Translocality in The Martian Chronicles, Faith and Reason in Fahrenheit 451.
Edition:
[First edition].
ISBN:
9781682175712
Series:
Critical insights

Critical insights.
Physical Description:
xxxiv, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
On Ray Bradbury and his works / Ray Douglas Bradbury / Big brother, little sister : Ray Bradbury, social pressure, and the challenges to free speech / From Dark Carnival to "carnivalization" : the critical reception of Ray Bradbury's works / Housewives and witches : finding feminism in Ray Bradbury's fiction / 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 / Reading Ray Bradbury's literary libraries / Faith and religion in the novels of Ray Bradbury / A golem in the family : robotic technologies and artificial intelligence in Ray Bradbury's short stories / Nuclear myths in Ray Bradbury's short stories / The magician's toyshop : watching The Ray Bradbury Theater / Writing a life : the stylistics of Ray Bradbury's autobiographical novels / Books as metaphors in The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 / Space and translocality : revisiting Ray Bradbury's Mars / Down to Earth : mundane concerns and marginalized individuals in Ray Bradbury's rocket stories
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