LEADER 05103nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910820852803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-86005-6 010 $a1-134-86006-4 010 $a1-280-14509-9 010 $a0-203-99321-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203993217 035 $a(CKB)1000000000253108 035 $a(EBL)235333 035 $a(OCoLC)252979488 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000232965 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173551 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232965 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10220169 035 $a(PQKB)11693135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC235333 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL235333 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10100782 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL14509 035 $a(OCoLC)647448517 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000253108 100 $a19940228d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading by starlight $epostmodern science fiction /$fDamien Broderick 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aPopular fiction series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-09789-4 311 $a0-415-09788-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aREADING 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 rhetoric 327 $aA 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 Dissertation 327 $aLearning 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 breakthrough 327 $a11 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; Index 330 $aReading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers.Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelist 410 0$aPopular fiction series. 606 $aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDiscourse analysis, Literary 606 $aPostmodernism (Literature) 606 $aSemiotics and literature 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 606 $aLiterary form 615 0$aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDiscourse analysis, Literary. 615 0$aPostmodernism (Literature) 615 0$aSemiotics and literature. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 0$aLiterary form. 676 $a813087620905 676 $a823.087609 700 $aBroderick$b Damien$0833965 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820852803321 996 $aReading by starlight$94123761 997 $aUNINA