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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462618503321

Autore

Freedman Carl Howard

Titolo

Critical theory and science fiction [[electronic resource]] / Carl Freedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8195-7454-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/8762

Soggetti

Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Critical Theory and Science Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Definitions; Critical Theory; Science Fiction; 2. Articulations; Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia; Science Fiction and the Canon; 3. Excursuses; Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia

The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of GenderStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities; Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory.



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Record Nr.

UNICASMIL0364965

Autore

International conference Homogenization and applications to material sciences :  <1995

Titolo

Proceedings of the international conference Homogenization and applications to material sciences, held in Nice, June 6-10, 1995 / edited by Doina Cioranescu, Alain Damlamian and Patrizia Donato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo, : Gakkotosho, c1995

ISBN

4762504181

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 439 p.: ill. ; 27 cm.

Collana

Gakuto international series. Mathematical sciences and applications ; 9

Disciplina

515.35

Soggetti

Omogeneizzazione (Equazioni differenziali)

Materiali - Modelli matematici

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia