Title:
Critical insights : Fahrenheit 451
Author:
McGiveron, Rafeeq O.
ISBN:
9781619252240
Edition:
[1st ed.].
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, c2013.
Physical Description:
xii, 261 pages. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Critical insights
Critical insights.
Contents:
About this volume / On Fahrenheit 451 / Biography of Ray Bradbury / The phoenix and the fireman: dialogistic inversion in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / From "government control of this and that" to "the whole culture's shot through": behavior, blame, and the bomb in The Martian chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 / Speaking futures: the road to Fahrenheit 451 / "Classics cut to fit"? Fahrenheit 451 and its appeal in other media / Fahrenheit 451 and the utopia dystopia: Bradbury's vision compared to those of More, Orwell, Huxley, Wells, and Dick / "The house all burnt": disintegrating domesticity in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / "Where ignorant armies class by night": love, war, and the women of Fahrenheit 451 / Knowledge and masculinity: male archetypes in Fahrenheit 451 / Readings Montag as a postmodern Don Quixote / The argument about memory in Fahrenheit 451 / If we own it, we can destroy it: Fahrenheit 451 and intellectual property / Bradbury, technology and the future of reading
Abstract:
"In this volume, introductory essays situate the novel in its historical and cultural context and also survey its critical reception, while subsequent chapters explore Bradbury's creation and reworking of the story, issues such as memory, love and morality, domesticity, intellectual property and censorship, and the appeal of Fahrenheit 451 in other media. Rounding out the volume is a bibliography of other important critical sources for readers seeking to study the novel and its themes further" -- provided by publisher.
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