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Examines survival in both literal and figurative terms to include such varied kinds of survival as physical, psychological, social, and spiritual endurance.
About This Volume -- On Survival: The Survival Theme in Science Fiction -- Critical Contexts -- Survival Psychology in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon -- The Survival Theme in Literature: An Overview -- An Evolution of Survival in American Short Fiction: Stories by Jack London, Ray Bradbury, Octavia E. Butler, and George Saunders -- Survival (and Degeneration?) of the Fittest in Kipling's "The Mark of the Beast" and Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- Critical Readings -- The Apostle Paul as Odyssean Survivor -- The Frontier of Tragedy: Survival in Measure for Measure -- Survival as a Theme in the Sequel to Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- By the Skin of Their Teeth: Surviving the Vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Issues of Survival in Jack London's "In a Far Country" -- Virtue and Survival in The Grapes of Wrath -- Survival as a Theme in Philip Larkin's Poetry: From the Mid-50s to the Mid-60s -- The Last Supper: Culinary Safety and Salvation in Recent Science Fiction -- Surviving Dystopia: Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood -- Responses to Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild -- Resources -- Further Reading 231 -- Bibliography 233 -- About the Editor 237 -- Contributors 239 -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.