Narrative Space and Time (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and spatio-temporal distortions of relativity have passed into culture at large. This book examines whether narrative can be used to represent these "impossible" spaces. Impossible topologies abound in ancient mythologies, from the Australian Aborigines’ "dream-time" to the multiple-layer universe of the Sumerians. More recently, from Alice’s adventures in Wonderland to contemporary science fiction’s obsession with black holes and quantum paradoxes, counter-intuitive spaces are a prominent feature of modern and postmodern narrative. With the rise and popularization of science fiction, the inventiveness and variety of impossible narrative spaces explodes. The author analyses the narrative techniques used to represent such spaces alongside their cultural significance. Each chapter connects narrative deformation of space with historical problematic of time, and demonstrates the cognitive and perceptual primacy of narrative in representing, imagining and apprehending new forms of space and time. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the connection between narratology, cultural theory, science fiction, and studies of place.

Literature & Fiction

GOMEL, ELANA

Genre Fiction

Routledge

BLOODSCRIPTS: WRITING THE VIOLENT SUBJECT (THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV)

We live in an increasingly violent world. From suicide terrorists to serial killers, violent subjects challenge our imaginations. We seek answers to our questions on this subject in literature, cinema, and electronic media. In Bloodscripts, Elana Gomel examines how popular culture narratives construct violent subjectivity. Using such various narratives as mystery, horror; detective, and fantasy fiction as well as accounts of the atrocities perpetuated by serial killers and the Holocaust, Bloodscripts offers a new map of the genres of violence and links the twin obsessions of postmodern culture: crime and genocide. Bloodscripts is a stimulating, original, and accessible account of the narrative construction of the violent subject. It proposes a narrative model that will be of interest to literary critics, cultural scholars, criminologists, and anyone trying to understand the role of violence in postmodern culture.

History & Criticism

Ohio State University Press

-This book contains some adult language and content- The world of the Fae is full of secrets and hidden things. It is a world of darkness and light, sensuality and fear. Step through the veil and take a peek at ten Fae in stories by ten authors.

Fae Wings and Hidden Things: A Wolf Pack Publishing Anthology

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Boekestein, Jaap

Blake, Stephen

Brown, Deborah

Crist, Vonnie Winslow

Blackwood, Angel

Calry, Layne

Rochelle, Warren

McColley, John A.

Long, Cynthia June

Fantasy

Wolf Pack Publishing

The stories in the collection focus on the spaces and places we love and those we dread. Those we remember and those we imagine. Those we live in and those we die for. Travel from the misty redwoods of California to a world paralyzed by the fear of darkness. From the canals of Venice to a building of infinite size to a house haunted by objects, and to a city whose streets are paved with faces.

Un/home

Alban Lake Publishing LLC

Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum entanglement, and spatio-temporal distortions of relativity have passed into culture at large. This book examines whether narrative can be used to represent these "impossible" spaces. Impossible topologies abound in ancient mythologies, from the Australian Aborigines' "dream-time" to the multiple-layer universe of the Sumerians. More recently, from Alice's adventures in Wonderland to contemporary science fiction's obsession with black holes and quantum paradoxes, counter-intuitive spaces are a prominent feature of modern and postmodern narrative. With the rise and popularization of science fiction, the inventiveness and variety of impossible narrative spaces explodes. The author analyses the narrative techniques used to represent such spaces alongside their cultural significance. Each chapter connects narrative deformation of space with historical problematic of time, and demonstrates the cognitive and perceptual primacy of narrative in representing, imagining and apprehending new forms of space and time. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the connection between narratology, cultural theory, science fiction, and studies of place.

Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (Continuum Literary Studies)

Are we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and ahistorical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative "timeshapes" or chronotopes. 
Chronological linearity is being challenged by quantum physics that implies temporal simultaneity; by evolutionary theory that charts multiple time-lines; and by religious and political millenarianism that espouses an apocalyptic finitude of both time and space. While science, religion, and politics have generated new narrative forms of apprehending temporality, literary incarnations can be found in the worlds of science fiction. 
By engaging classic science-fictional conventions, such as time travel, alternative history, and the end of the world, and by situating these conventions in their cultural context, this book offers a new and fresh perspective on the narratology and cultural significance of time.

Continuum

Are we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and ahistorical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative "timeshapes" or chronotopes. Chronological linearity is being challenged by quantum physics that implies temporal simultaneity; by evolutionary theory that charts multiple time-lines; and by religious and political millenarianism that espouses an apocalyptic finitude of both time and space. While science, religion, and politics have generated new narrative forms of apprehending temporality, literary incarnations can be found in the worlds of science fiction. By engaging classic science-fictional conventions, such as time travel, alternative history, and the end of the world, and by situating these conventions in their cultural context, this book offers a new and fresh perspective on the narratology and cultural significance of time.

THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR 
Edited by Josh Schlossberg\nHorror is part of the human condition, but few peoples across the ages know it quite like the Jews.\nFrom slavery to pogroms to the Holocaust to antisemitism, the "Chosen People" have not only endured hell on Earth, they've risen above it to share their stories with the world.\nWhether it's pirate rabbis or demon-slaying Bible queens, concentration camp vampires or beloved, fearless bubbies, THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR offers you twenty-two dark tales about the culture, history, and folklore of the Jewish people.\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nAn Orchard of Terror: Scary Stories and the Jewish Tradition by Rabbi John Carrier\nOrigins of The Jewish Book of Horror by Josh Schlossberg\nTorah-fying Tales: An Introduction to Jewish Horror by Molly Adams\nOn Seas of Blood and Salt by Richard Dansky\nThe Last Plague by KD Casey\nThe 38th Funeral by Marc Morgenstern\nSame as Yesterday by Alter S. Reiss\nHow to Build a Sukkah at the End of the World by Lindsay King-Miller\nDemon Hunter Vashti by Henry Herz\nThe Horse Leech Has Two Maws by Michael Picco\nThe Rabbi's Wife by Simon Rosenberg\nBa'alat Ov by Brenda Tolian\nEighth Night by John Baltisberger\nBread and Salt by Elana Gomel\nIn the Red by Mike Marcus\nA Purim Story by Emily Ruth Verona\nCatch and Release by Vivian Kasley\nPhinehas the Zealot by Ethan K. Lee\nThe Wisdom of Solomon by Ken Goldman\nWelcome, Death by J.D. Blackrose\nForty Days Before Birth by Colleen Halupa\nThe Hanukkult of Taco Wisdom by Margret Treiber\nThe Divorce From God by Rami Ungar\nThe Hand of Fire by Daniel Braum\nBar Mitzvah Lessons by Stewart Gisser

The Jewish Book of Horror

Braum, Daniel

Denver Horror Collective

Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

Historian Thomas Cahill argued that it was the Jewish people who invented the very concept of history as we know it. They were the first to perceive time not as an endless circle of life, death and rebirth, but as the flight of an arrow, on a linear path to somewhere from somewhere. But what if time is not one arrow, but a volley of arrows? What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction. Contributors include Jack Dann, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen, Lavie Tidhar and Benjamin Rosenbaum, among many others!

Dann, Jack

TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

Reisman, Jessica

Shvartsman, Alex

Choi, Eric

Tidhar, Lavie

Kressel, Matthew

Weiss, Allan

Goldberg, James

Rosenbaum, Benjamin

Polack, Gillian

Takács, Bogi

Rafael, Rivqa

LALUMIÈRE, CLAUDE

Silverberg,Robert

Garfinkle, Gwynne

Nurenberg, David

MAYNE, SEYMOUR

YOLEN, JANE

Latta, D.K.

Alter, Seth

Beaulier, Patrick

Dyen-Shapiro, Allan

Eden, Hunter C.

Grozny, Isak

McDaniel, C. L.

Nicholls, Jack

Sparber, Max

Verskin, Milton

World Literature

ChiZine Publications

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