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Author | : M. Keith Booker |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2009-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444310351 |
The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
Author | : Lyon Sprague De Camp |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : George Elrick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Nick Hubble |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2013-11-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472538978 |
As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.
Author | : Rob Latham |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 0199838844 |
The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction attempts to descry the historical and cultural contours of SF in the wake of technoculture studies. Rather than treating the genre as an isolated aesthetic formation, it examines SF's many lines of cross-pollination with technocultural realities since itsinception in the nineteenth century, showing how SF's unique history and subcultural identity has been constructed in ongoing dialogue with popular discourses of science and technology.The volume consists of four broadly themed sections, each divided into eleven chapters. Section I, "Science Fiction as Genre," considers the internal history of SF literature, examining its characteristic aesthetic and ideological modalities, its animating social and commercial institutions, and itsrelationship to other fantastic genres. Section II, "Science Fiction as Medium," presents a more diverse and ramified understanding of what constitutes the field as a mode of artistic and pop-cultural expression, canvassing extra-literary manifestations of SF ranging from film and television tovideogames and hypertext to music and theme parks. Section III, "Science Fiction as Culture," examines the genre in relation to cultural issues and contexts that have influenced it and been influenced by it in turn, the goal being to see how SF has helped to constitute and define important(sub)cultural groupings, social movements, and historical developments during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Finally, Section IV, "Science Fiction as Worldview," explores SF as a mode of thought and its intersection with other philosophies and large-scale perspectives on theworld, from the Enlightenment to the present day.
Author | : Marshall B. Tymn |
Publisher | : Mercer Island, Wash. : Starmont House |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Reference |
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Author | : Herbert James Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
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Author | : Lyon Sprague De Camp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
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Author | : David Wingrove |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
"The science fiction source book" is packed with information about writers, novels, short stories, magazines and works of criticism.
Author | : Adam Charles Roberts |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : 0415192056 |
Science Fiction offers a critical account of the phenomenon of science fiction, illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history. The impact of technological advances on the genre is discussed.