Phoenix From the Ashes: The Literature of the Remade World [Hardcover]

This interesting and unusual collection of essays explores the post-holocaust theme as it has been treated in science fiction and fantasy literature. Seen in a positive mode, this theme offers a powerful metaphor for exploring man's relationship to his social structure. The post-holocaust motif, the editor contends, literally permits the exploration of many sub-topics, such as rebirth, social patterns, evolution, devolution, entropy, history, ecology, ethics, medicine, personal values, and so on.CARL B. YOKE is Associate Professor of English, and Assistant to the Associate Vice President of the Extended University, Kent State University, Ohio.

Acknowledgments
Phoenix from the Ashes Rising: An Introduction by Carl B. Yoke
A Psychological Analysis of the Myth of the Remade World by Carl Goldberg
Alas, Babylon and On the Beach: Antiphons of the Apocalypse by C.W.Sullivan III
The Revival of Learning: Science after the Nuclear Holocaust in Science Fiction by Paul Brians
Deaths by Drowning by Joe Sanders
From Ashes Comes the Cuckoo: Character and Myth in Postholocaust Narratives by William Lomax
Intellectual Power in H.G.Wells' The World Set Free by Nadine S. St. Louis
Weinbaum's Fire from the Ashes: The Postdisaster Civilization of the Black Flame by Edgar L. Chapman
Future Imperfect: Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow by Donna M. DeBlasio
To Play the Phoenix: Medieval Images and Cycles of Rebuilding in Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz by Thomas P. Dunn
The Death of the Heart in Level 7 by Carolyn Wendell
Not with a Bang but with a Whimper: Anticatastrophic Elements in Vance's Dying Earth by Gregory M. Shreve
J.G.Ballard: We Are the Survivors by Judith B. Kerman
Argument Not Less but More Heroic : Epic, Order, and Postholocaust Society in Piers Anthony's Battle Circle by Michael R. Collings
Mythic Hells in Harlan Ellison's Science Fiction by Joseph Francavilla
Bernard Malamud and Russell Hoban: Manipulating the Ald