Transrealist fiction : writing in the slipstream of science / / Damien Broderick

• Autore: Broderick Damien
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2000; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3/8762
• Soggetto topico: Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Science fiction - Authorship; Fantastic, The, in literature; Realism in literature; Reality in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- TRANSREALIST FICTION -- Contents -- Introduction: Beyond Imagination -- DEALING WITH DEATH -- THE VOICES OF SPACETIME -- TRUTH IN ADVERTISING -- NOTES -- 1 Signs Fiction -- THE REAL THING -- COPPING THE SATIRE PLEA -- STORIES: JUST SO -- A MATTER OF TASTE -- THE THEORY OF THEORY -- LEARNING HOW TO SEE -- A DOG IN MIND -- TEXT AS PSEUDOTELEPATHY -- NOTES -- 2 Realism and Reality -- SCIENCE AND/OR FICTION -- TRANSREALISM -- PUNK AND CIRCUMSTANCE -- INVENTING WORLDS -- NOTES -- 3 Science Fiction's Crazy Prose -- SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING OLD -- THE MISSING MATTER PROBLEM -- POLISH NOTATION -- MECHANISMS OF DESIRE -- WHY PEOPLE DISLIKE SCIENCE FICTION -- NOTES -- 4 The Death and Deconstruction of Science Fiction -- THE FREQUENTLY ANNOUNCED DEATH OF SCIENCE FICTION -- A CALCULUS AT GOD -- NEW CASES OF CONSCIENCE -- LAMBS AND LIONS -- MUSIC OF THE SPHERES -- SO IT GOES -- ANTI-BODHISATTVAS -- DOUBLES -- INVERSIONS -- WADING THE SLIPSTREAM -- NOTES -- 5 Fictions in the Slipstream -- EARLY SLIPSTREAM -- DADA -- SLIPSTREAM/TRANSREALISM -- FROM EARTH TO CYBERIA -- THE ATROCITY EXPEDITION -- LOST IN THE BARTH-HOUSE -- MORE PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION -- THE LANDSCAPE OF LACK -- NOTES -- 6 Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity -- THE RUSH INTO POSTHISTORY -- ZONES AND POWERS -- EXPLORERS OF THE SPIKE -- COMEDY OR TRAGEDY? -- THE ROAD TO XANADU -- GEOGRAPHIES OF THE INCONCEIVABLE -- NOTES -- 7 Transreality: Living What You Write -- THE AUTHOR IN THE TEXT -- HUMAN, ANTIHUMAN -- THE NEUROLOGY OF THE NUMINOUS -- EASY TRAVEL TO OTHER PLANETS -- NOTES -- 8 Rudy Rucker and the Future of Transrealism -- LIFE AS A FRACTAL IN HILBERT SPACE -- NOT EVERYTHING IS TRANSREALIST -- SELF-FASHIONING -- IF YOU ASK, GOD WILL HELP YOU -- ON AN ENDLESS ROLL -- WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED -- AT THE CORE -- WHY, AFTER ALL, TRANSREALISM?. ; SUMMING UP -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transrealist fiction
• ISBN: 979-82-16-02732-4; 0-313-00316-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817945603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; ; no. 90.