05103nam 2200817Ia 450 991082085280332120200520144314.01-134-86005-61-134-86006-41-280-14509-90-203-99321-710.4324/9780203993217 (CKB)1000000000253108(EBL)235333(OCoLC)252979488(SSID)ssj0000232965(PQKBManifestationID)11173551(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232965(PQKBWorkID)10220169(PQKB)11693135(MiAaPQ)EBC235333(Au-PeEL)EBL235333(CaPaEBR)ebr10100782(CaONFJC)MIL14509(OCoLC)647448517(EXLCZ)99100000000025310819940228d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading by starlight postmodern science fiction /Damien Broderick1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19951 online resource (221 p.)Popular fiction seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-09789-4 0-415-09788-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.READING BY STARLIGHT Postmodernscience fiction; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Modern science fiction; 1 New World, New Texts; The lineage of sf; Definitions; A mythology of tomorrow; Running the universe; The catlike mrem; At play in the fields of the word; Sf after 19?; Changing paradigms; 2 Generic Engineering; Out of the pulps; Science fiction's formulae; How much change?; Uncanny and marvellous; Diagramming the fantastic; Cognitive and estranged; New words, new sentences; 3 Genre or Mode?; Genre regarded as a game of tennis; The persuasions of rhetoricA trans-historical temptationDrawing from life; A literature of metaphor; 4 The Uses of Otherness; Really strange bedfellows; Pretending to shock; Sf and subversion; Feminist futures; Metaphor and metonymy; The mega-text; Icon and mega-text; The absent signified; 5 Reading The Episteme; Delany's critical path; Subjunctivity and mega-text; Learning to read sf; Sf as paraliterary; Critiquing the object; 6 Dreams of Reason and Unreason; out of the kindergarten; Familiarising the estranged; Monstrous dreams; Cyberpunk; Value-added trash; Beyond satire; 7 The Stars My DissertationLearning the tropesTime's arrow, time's cycle; Flaws in the pattern; The hazard of didacticism; A fatal innocence; Deep identity; Part II Postmodern science fiction; 8 Making Up Worlds; What is the postmodern?; Mapping utopia; Jameson's postmodern and sf; Screen test; A new dominant; 9 Allography and Allegory; Sf as allegory of reading; Difference; Remaking myth; Myth re-complicated; The music of words; The interpretative context; 10 Sf as a Modular Calculus; A mirror for observers; Black box and finagle factor; The rudder of language; Writing in phase space; Conceptual breakthrough11 The Multiplicity of Worlds, of OthersArt as play, art as revelation; Assailing dogma; The postmodern intersection; Worlds out of words; Norman Rockwell on Mars; Self-reference; The antinomies of spacetime; 12 The Autumnal City; The object of science fiction; A definition of sf; Sf and the renovated novel; Strange attractors; Notes; Bibliography; IndexReading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers.Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelistPopular fiction series.Science fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismScience fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismDiscourse analysis, LiteraryPostmodernism (Literature)Semiotics and literatureNarration (Rhetoric)Literary formScience fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Science fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Discourse analysis, Literary.Postmodernism (Literature)Semiotics and literature.Narration (Rhetoric)Literary form.813087620905823.087609Broderick Damien833965MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820852803321Reading by starlight4123761UNINA