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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965623203321

Autore

Freedman Carl Howard

Titolo

Critical theory and science fiction / / Carl Freedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000

ISBN

9780819574541

0819574546

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/8762

Soggetti

Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc

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.