Ray Bradbury : A Critical Companion.

Cover -- RAY BRADBURY -- ADVISORY BOARD -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Life of Ray Bradbury -- SOME WORKS CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION -- 2 Ray Bradbury and the Question of "Science Fiction" -- OVERVIEW OF MAJOR PUBLICATIONS -- Nonfiction -- Short Fiction -- Novels -- CONCLUSION -- 3 The Martian Chronicles (1950) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- Narrative Point of View -- Martian and Human Characters -- SETTING -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE: A POSTCOLONIAL READING -- 4 The Illustrated Man (1951) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- SETTINGS -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE: "RACE" AS A LITERARY CONSTRUCT IN SCIENCE FICTION -- 5 Fahrenheit 451 (1953) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- SETTING -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE: A STYLISTIC READING -- 6 Dandelion Wine (1957) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- Main Characters -- Narrative Point of View -- SETTING -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE: A GENDER READING -- 7 Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES: A FEMINIST READING -- 8 Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- SETTING -- THEMES -- ALTERNATE PERSPECTIVE: A POSTMODERN READING -- 9 A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- SETTING -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE: A SEMIOTIC READING -- 10 Green Shadows, White Whale (1992) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE: A QUEER READING -- Bibliography -- WORKS BY RAY BRADBURY -- Fiction -- Novels -- Story Collections -- Drama -- Poetry -- Anthologies Edited by Bradbury -- Nonfiction -- WORKS ABOUT RAY BRADBURY -- Biographies -- General Information -- Bibliography.

REVIEWS AND CRITICISM -- The Martian Chronicles -- The Illustrated Man -- Fahrenheit 451 -- Dandelion Wine -- Something Wicked This Way Comes -- Death Is a Lonely Business -- Graveyard for Lunatics -- Green Shadows, White Whale -- OTHER SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index -- About the Author -- Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers -- Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers.

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