Exploring The Next Frontier: Vietnam, Nasa, Star Trek And Utopia In 1960s And 70s American Myth And History (routledge Advances In American History)
by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell /
2016 / English / PDF
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The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even
as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths
themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman’s
The 1960s and early 70s saw the evolution of Frontier Myths even
as scholars were renouncing the interpretive value of myths
themselves. Works like Joe Haldeman’sThe Forever War
The Forever War
exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the
Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of simple
mythic idealism. Simultaneously, Americans were playing with
expanded and revised versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though
in a contemporary context, through NASA’s lunar missions,
exemplified that rejection using his experiences during the
Vietnam War to illustrate the problematic consequences of simple
mythic idealism. Simultaneously, Americans were playing with
expanded and revised versions of familiar Frontier Myths, though
in a contemporary context, through NASA’s lunar missions,Star
Trek
Star
Trek, and Gerard K. O’Neill’s High Frontier.
, and Gerard K. O’Neill’s High Frontier.
This book examines the reasons behind the exclusion of
Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly discourse, and
endeavors to build a new model for understanding their enduring
significance. This model connects NASA’s failed attempts to
recycle earlier myths, wholesale, to
This book examines the reasons behind the exclusion of
Frontier Myths to the periphery of scholarly discourse, and
endeavors to build a new model for understanding their enduring
significance. This model connects NASA’s failed attempts to
recycle earlier myths, wholesale, toStar
StarTrek
Trek’s
revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier
paradise, to O’Neill’s desire to realize such a paradise in
Earth’s orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative
connotations of Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and
attempts to resuscitate them for relevance in the modern academic
context.
’s
revision of those myths and rejection of the idea of a frontier
paradise, to O’Neill’s desire to realize such a paradise in
Earth’s orbit. This new synthesis defies the negative
connotations of Frontier Myths during the 1960s and 70s and
attempts to resuscitate them for relevance in the modern academic
context.
