Starboard wine [[electronic resource] ] : more notes on the language of science fiction / / Samuel R. Delany

• Autore: Delany Samuel R
• Pubblicazione: Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2012
• Edizione: Rev. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 814/.54
• Soggetto topico: Science fiction - History and criticism; Science fiction - Technique
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The Necessity of Tomorrow(s) -- 2. Heinlein -- 3. Some Presumptuous Approaches to Science Fiction -- 4. Sturgeon -- 5. Science Fiction and "Literature" - or, The Conscience of the King -- 6. Russ -- 7. An Experimental Talk -- 8. Disch, I -- 9. Disch, II -- 10. Dichtung und Science Fiction -- 11. Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies -- (1) A Letter from New York -- (2) Another Letter from New York -- (3) A Letter from Rome -- 12. Reflections on Historical Models -- Index -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: The long-awaited reissue of a classic work of criticism - revised and expanded. In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific "difference," we begin to see the quality of its particulars. Through riveting analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, Delany reveals critical strategies for reading that move beyond overwrought theorizing and formulaic thinking. Throughout, the author performs the kinds of careful inquiry and urgent speculation that he calls others to engage in.
• Titolo autorizzato: Starboard wine
• ISBN: 9780819572943 (e-book); 9780819568847 (pbk.)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779225003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II