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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155523903321

Titolo

Worlds of wonder [[electronic resource] ] : readings in Canadian science fiction and fantasy literature / / edited by Jean-François Leroux and Camille R. La Bossière

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa [Ont.], : University of Ottawa Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7766-1745-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

Reappraisals, Canadian writers ; ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

La BossièreCamille R

LerouxJean-François

Disciplina

813.0876209

Soggetti

Science fiction, Canadian - History and criticism

Fantasy fiction, Canadian - History and criticism

Canadian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; """"Another Dimension of Space"": Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Atwood's Blind Assassin""; ""The Canadian Apocalypse""; ""Notes on the Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma""; ""Welwyn Wilton Katz and Charles de Lint: New Fantasy as a Canadian Post-colonial Genre""; ""More Than Just Survival: The Successful Quest for Voice in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and Randy Bradshaw's The Song Spinner""

""Sublime Objects and Mystic Subjects: Some Lacanian Speculations About Canadian Fantasy Literature Via Barbara Goowdy's The White Bone""""""Half In and Half Out of Things"": Boundaries in Sean Stewart's The Night Watch""; ""Mind Matters: Intellect and Identity in the Works of Phyllis Gotlieb""; ""Coding of Race in Science Fiction: What's Wrong with the Obvious?""; ""A Scientist's Relationship with Science Fiction""; ""Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Asimov's The Caves of Steel and Sawyer's Golden Fleece""; ""Northern Gothic: The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James""