02667nam 2200553 a 450 991046261850332120200520144314.00-8195-7454-6(CKB)2670000000418405(EBL)1354775(SSID)ssj0000980831(PQKBManifestationID)11582125(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980831(PQKBWorkID)10969881(PQKB)10339930(OCoLC)856934538(MiAaPQ)EBC1354775(MdBmJHUP)muse31339(Au-PeEL)EBL1354775(CaPaEBR)ebr10749705(OCoLC)862820543(EXLCZ)99267000000041840520130906d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCritical theory and science fiction[electronic resource]Carl FreedmanMiddletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Pressc20001 online resource (233 p.)Includes index.0-8195-6398-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 UtopiaThe 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 AUTHORSelected 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.Science fictionHistory and criticismTheory, etcElectronic books.Science fictionHistory and criticismTheory, etc.809.3/8762Freedman Carl Howard564007MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462618503321Critical theory and science fiction950506UNINA