From captain Stormfield to captain Kirk : two twentieth-century representations of heaven

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Title:	From captain Stormfield to captain Kirk : two twentieth-century representations of heaven
Author:	Clasquin, Michel
Abstract:	This article examines two expressions of popular entertainment, nearly a century apart, that take the form of a traveller's yarn about a journey to the ultimate destination: heaven itself. One is a story by Mark Twain, the other one of the many Star Trek films. Although both share a broadly optimistic viewpoint, there are profound differences between them, the treatment of heaven within the two reflecting the kind of notion of heaven that audiences at respectively the beginning and end of the twentieth century were prepared to accept, or, more precisely, what the respective authors felt they could get away with.
Description:	Originally published in Myth and Symbol. Archived here in conformance with publisher's restriction as found on Sherpa Romeo. Publisher version available at: [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a907785917]
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/449
Date:	2007-11
Citation:	Clasquin, M. 2007, 'From Captain Stormfield to Captain Kirk : two twentieth-century representations of heaven', Myth and Symbol, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 57-66.