LEADER 03854nam 22007095 450 001 9910568244303321 005 20240322035052.0 010 $a9783030969462$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030969455 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-96946-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6962857 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6962857 035 $a(CKB)21639818300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-96946-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921639818300041 100 $a20220425d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlfred Bester's The Stars My Destination $eA Critical Companion /$fby D. Harlan Wilson 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (133 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,$x2662-8570 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Wilson, D. Harlan Alfred Bester's the Stars My Destination Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030969455 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Synopsis -- 3. Cyberpunk Previsions and Literary Influences -- 4. The Frankenstein Riff -- 5. Architectures of Psyche, Power and Patriarchy -- 6. Speaking in Gutter Tongues -- 7. Coda. . 330 $aIn this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester's SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson's study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson's view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalizationof our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become. D. Harlan Wilson is an American novelist, playwright, editor, critic, and Professor of English at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, USA. He is the author of over 30 book-length works of fiction and nonfiction. 410 0$aPalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,$x2662-8570 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aMotion pictures 606 $aTelevision broadcasting 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aFilm and Television Studies 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 0$aMotion pictures. 615 0$aTelevision broadcasting. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aFilm and Television Studies. 676 $a813.54 676 $a813.54 700 $aWilson$b D. Harlan$01128126 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910568244303321 996 $aAlfred Bester's the Stars My Destination$92845076 997 $aUNINA