03807nam 2200661 a 450 991078980290332120221107155343.00-674-26265-410.4159/9780674059221(CKB)2670000000081267(StDuBDS)AH21620497(SSID)ssj0000483925(PQKBManifestationID)12211683(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483925(PQKBWorkID)10574199(PQKB)11149251(Au-PeEL)EBL3300915(CaPaEBR)ebr10456082(OCoLC)733310817(DE-B1597)585459(DE-B1597)9780674059221(DE-B1597)586310(DE-B1597)9780674262652(MiAaPQ)EBC3300915(OCoLC)1302164053(EXLCZ)99267000000008126720100412d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrDo metaphors dream of literal sleep?[electronic resource] a science-fictional theory of representation /Seo-Young ChuCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20101 online resource (306 p.)Formerly CIP.Uk0-674-05517-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.The globalized world -- Cyberspace in the 1990s -- War trauma -- Postmemory han -- Robot rights.In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and imaginary. Seo-Young Chu challenges this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of 'high-intensity realism' capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional modes of representation.In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of "high-intensity realism" capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, "realist" modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource-one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.Science fiction, American20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and technologyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterary formScience fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Literature and technologyHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryLiterary form.813/.0876209Chu Seo-Young1978-1477254MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789802903321Do metaphors dream of literal sleep3692364UNINA