| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2013
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| Descrizione fisica |
vii, 215p. ; : ill. (b&w)
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| Disciplina |
016.8093876
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
ThomasPaul Lee <1961->
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| Collana |
Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre
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| Soggetto topico |
Education
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| ISBN |
9789462093805 : (ebk : EbookCentral)
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction: Challenging Genres -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Challenging Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction -- 1. A Case for SF and Speculative Fiction: An Introductory Consideration -- 2. SF and Speculative Novels: Confronting the Science and the Fiction -- 3. SF Novels and Sociological Experimentation: Examining Real World Dynamics through Imaginative Displacement -- 4. "Peel[ing] apart Layers of Meaning" in SF Short Fiction: Inviting Students to Extrapolate on the Effects of Change -- 5. Reading Alien Suns: Using SF Film to Teach a Political Literacy of Possibility -- 6. Singularity, Cyborgs, Drones, Replicants and Avatars: Coming to Terms with the Digital Self -- 7. Troubling Notions of Reality in Caprica: Examining "Paradoxical States" of Being -- 8. "I Try to RememberWho I Am and Who I Am Not": The Subjugation of Nature and Women in The Hunger Games -- 9. "It's a Bird . . . It's a Plane . . . It's . . . a Comic Book in the Classroom?": Truth: Red, White, and Black as Test Case for Teaching Superhero Comics -- 10. The Enduring Power of SF, Speculative and Dystopian Fiction: Final Thoughts -- Author Biographies.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910438234003321 |
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Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction : Challenging Genres / / edited by P. L. Thomas
