LEADER 03807nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910789802903321 005 20221107155343.0 010 $a0-674-26265-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674059221 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081267 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH21620497 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483925 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12211683 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483925 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10574199 035 $a(PQKB)11149251 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300915 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456082 035 $a(OCoLC)733310817 035 $a(DE-B1597)585459 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674059221 035 $a(DE-B1597)586310 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674262652 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300915 035 $a(OCoLC)1302164053 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081267 100 $a20100412d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDo metaphors dream of literal sleep?$b[electronic resource] $ea science-fictional theory of representation /$fSeo-Young Chu 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-674-05517-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe globalized world -- Cyberspace in the 1990s -- War trauma -- Postmemory han -- Robot rights. 330 $aIn 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. 330 $bIn 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. 606 $aScience fiction, American$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and technology$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterary form 615 0$aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and technology$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterary form. 676 $a813/.0876209 700 $aChu$b Seo-Young$f1978-$01477254 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789802903321 996 $aDo metaphors dream of literal sleep$93692364 997 $aUNINA