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Titolo |
Learning from other worlds [[electronic resource] ] : estrangement, cognition and the politics of science fiction and utopia / / edited by Patrick Parrinder |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Collana |
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Utopias - History and criticism |
Science fiction - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-306) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Learning from Other Worlds; Part One: Science Fiction and Utopia: Theory and Politics; Before the Novum: The Prehistory of Science Fiction Criticism; Revisiting Suvin's Poetics of Science Fiction; 'Look into the dark': On Dystopia and the Novum; Science Fiction and Utopia: A Historico-Philosophical Overview; Society After the Revolution: The Blueprints for the Forthcoming Socialist Society published by the Leaders of the Second International; Part Two: Science fiction in its Social, Cultural and Philosophical Contexts |
From the Images of Science to Science FictionEstranged Invaders: The War of the Worlds; 'A part of the ... family [?]': John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos as Estranged Autobiography; Labyrinth, Double and Mask in the Science Fiction of Stanislaw Lem; 'We're at the start of a new ball game and that's why we're all real nervous': Or, Cloning-Technological Cognition Reflects Estrangement from Women; 'If I find one good city I will spare the man': Realism and Utopia in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy; Afterword: With Sober, Estranged Eyes |
Darko Suvin: Checklist of Printed Items that Concern Science Fiction (with Utopian Fiction or Utopianism, and a few Bordering Items)Bibliography; Index |
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