Beyond cyberpunk : new critical perspectives / / edited by Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MurphyGraham J. <1970->
VintSherryl <1969-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in contemporary literature |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Cyberpunk culture Technology in literature Postmodernism (Literature) Literature and technology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-136-97318-4
1-282-62965-4 9786612629655 0-203-85196-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk; Part I: Situating Cyberpunk; 1 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk; 2 "A Rare State of Ferment" SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk; 3 Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition; 4 Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon; Part II: The Political Economy of Cyberpunk; 5 Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy
6 "The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification7 Why Neo Flies, and Why He Shouldn't: The Critique of Cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones's Escape Plans and M. John Harrison's Signs of Life; 8 Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk; Part III: The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk; 9 Feminist Cyberpunk; 10 Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy; 11 Retrofitting Frankenstein; 12 Angel(LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition; Afterword: The World Gibson Made; Contributors; Bibliography Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458663203321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond cyberpunk : new critical perspectives / / edited by Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MurphyGraham J. <1970->
VintSherryl <1969-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in contemporary literature |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Cyberpunk culture Technology in literature Postmodernism (Literature) Literature and technology |
ISBN |
1-136-97317-6
1-136-97318-4 1-282-62965-4 9786612629655 0-203-85196-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk; Part I: Situating Cyberpunk; 1 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk; 2 "A Rare State of Ferment" SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk; 3 Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition; 4 Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon; Part II: The Political Economy of Cyberpunk; 5 Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy
6 "The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification7 Why Neo Flies, and Why He Shouldn't: The Critique of Cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones's Escape Plans and M. John Harrison's Signs of Life; 8 Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk; Part III: The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk; 9 Feminist Cyberpunk; 10 Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy; 11 Retrofitting Frankenstein; 12 Angel(LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition; Afterword: The World Gibson Made; Contributors; Bibliography Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791124503321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond cyberpunk : new critical perspectives / / edited by Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MurphyGraham J. <1970->
VintSherryl <1969-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in contemporary literature |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Cyberpunk culture Technology in literature Postmodernism (Literature) Literature and technology |
ISBN |
1-136-97317-6
1-136-97318-4 1-282-62965-4 9786612629655 0-203-85196-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk; Part I: Situating Cyberpunk; 1 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk; 2 "A Rare State of Ferment" SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk; 3 Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition; 4 Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon; Part II: The Political Economy of Cyberpunk; 5 Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy
6 "The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification7 Why Neo Flies, and Why He Shouldn't: The Critique of Cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones's Escape Plans and M. John Harrison's Signs of Life; 8 Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk; Part III: The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk; 9 Feminist Cyberpunk; 10 Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy; 11 Retrofitting Frankenstein; 12 Angel(LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition; Afterword: The World Gibson Made; Contributors; Bibliography Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828485203321 |
New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Cambridge companion to science fiction / / edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Collana | Cambridge companions to literature |
Soggetto topico |
Ciència-ficció
Història de la literatura Science fiction - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
ISBN |
1-107-48580-0
0-511-07829-3 1-280-16288-0 0-511-07672-X 0-511-20466-3 0-511-99880-5 0-511-12080-X 0-511-32637-8 0-511-07518-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction : Reading science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn -- Science fiction before the genre / Brian Stableford -- Magazine era : 1926-1960 / Brian Attebery -- New Wave and backwash : 1960-1980 / Damien Broderick -- Science fiction from 1980 to the present / John Clute -- Film and television / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and its editors / Gary K. Wolfe-- Marxist theory and science fiction / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Feminist theory and science fiction / Veronica Hollinger -- Postmodernism and science fiction / Andrew M. Butler -- Science fiction and queer theory / Wendy Pearson -- Icons of science fiction / Gwyneth Jones -- Science fiction and the life sciences / Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy -- Hard science fiction / Kathryn Cramer -- Space opera / Gary Westfahl -- Alternate history / Andy Duncan -- Utopias and anti-utopias / Edward James -- Politics and science fiction / Ken Macleod -- Gender in science fiction / Helen Merrick -- Race and ethnicity in science fiction / Elisabeth Anne Leonard -- Religion and science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996226148103316 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A companion to science fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Seed |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | xvi, 612 p |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SeedDavid |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-78268-492-1
1-280-19874-5 9786610198740 1-4051-6502-2 0-470-99705-2 1-4051-4458-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Introduction : Approaching science fiction -- pt. I. Surveying the field. Hard reading : the hard reading : the challenges of science fiction / Tom Shippey -- The origins of science fiction / George Slusser -- Science fiction/criticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Science-fiction magazines : the crucibles of change / MIke Ashley -- pt. II. Topics and debates. Utopia / Phillip E. Wegner -- Science, fiction and religion / Stephen R.L. Clark -- "Monsters of the imagination" : Gothic,science, fiction / Fred Botting -- Science fiction and ecology / Brian Stableford -- Feminist fabulation / Marleen S. Barr -- Time and identity in feminist science fiction / Jenny Wolmark -- Science fiction and the Cold War / M. Keith Booker -- pt. III. Genres and movements. Hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl -- The new wave / Rob Latham -- Cyberpunk / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- The renewal of "hard" science fiction / Donald M. Hassler -- pt. IV. Science fiction film. American science fiction film : an overview / Vivian Sobchack -- Figurations of the cyborg in contemporary science fiction novels and fiction / Christine Cornea -- British television science fiction / Peter Wright -- pt. V. The international scene. Canadian science fiction / Douglas Barbour -- Japanese and Asian science fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi -- Australian science fiction / Van Ikin and Sean McMullen --
pt. VI. Key writers. The grandeur of H.G. Wells / Robert Crossley -- Isaac Asimov / John Clute -- John Wyndham : the facts of life sextet / David Ketterer -- Philip Dick / Christopher Palmer -- Samuel Delaney : a biographical and critical overview / Carl Freedman -- Ursula K. Le Guin / Warren G. Rochelle -- Gwyneth Jones anxietiesanxities of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Arthur C. Clarke / Edward James -- Greg Egan / Russell Blackford -- pt. VII. Readings. Mary Shelley : Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland / Jill Rudd -- Aldous Huxley : Brave new world / David Seed -- Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 / Brian Baker -- Joanna Russ : The female man / Jeanne Cortiel -- J.G. Ballard : Crash / Roger Luckhurst -- Margaret Atwood : The handmaid's tale / Faye Hammill -- William Gibson : Neuromancer / Andrew M. Butler -- Kim Stanley Robinson : Mars trilogy / Carol Franko -- Iain M. Banks : Excession / Farah Mendlesohn. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996214585403316 |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A companion to science fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Seed |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | xvi, 612 p |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SeedDavid |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-78268-492-1
1-280-19874-5 9786610198740 1-4051-6502-2 0-470-99705-2 1-4051-4458-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Introduction : Approaching science fiction -- pt. I. Surveying the field. Hard reading : the hard reading : the challenges of science fiction / Tom Shippey -- The origins of science fiction / George Slusser -- Science fiction/criticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Science-fiction magazines : the crucibles of change / MIke Ashley -- pt. II. Topics and debates. Utopia / Phillip E. Wegner -- Science, fiction and religion / Stephen R.L. Clark -- "Monsters of the imagination" : Gothic,science, fiction / Fred Botting -- Science fiction and ecology / Brian Stableford -- Feminist fabulation / Marleen S. Barr -- Time and identity in feminist science fiction / Jenny Wolmark -- Science fiction and the Cold War / M. Keith Booker -- pt. III. Genres and movements. Hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl -- The new wave / Rob Latham -- Cyberpunk / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- The renewal of "hard" science fiction / Donald M. Hassler -- pt. IV. Science fiction film. American science fiction film : an overview / Vivian Sobchack -- Figurations of the cyborg in contemporary science fiction novels and fiction / Christine Cornea -- British television science fiction / Peter Wright -- pt. V. The international scene. Canadian science fiction / Douglas Barbour -- Japanese and Asian science fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi -- Australian science fiction / Van Ikin and Sean McMullen --
pt. VI. Key writers. The grandeur of H.G. Wells / Robert Crossley -- Isaac Asimov / John Clute -- John Wyndham : the facts of life sextet / David Ketterer -- Philip Dick / Christopher Palmer -- Samuel Delaney : a biographical and critical overview / Carl Freedman -- Ursula K. Le Guin / Warren G. Rochelle -- Gwyneth Jones anxietiesanxities of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Arthur C. Clarke / Edward James -- Greg Egan / Russell Blackford -- pt. VII. Readings. Mary Shelley : Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland / Jill Rudd -- Aldous Huxley : Brave new world / David Seed -- Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 / Brian Baker -- Joanna Russ : The female man / Jeanne Cortiel -- J.G. Ballard : Crash / Roger Luckhurst -- Margaret Atwood : The handmaid's tale / Faye Hammill -- William Gibson : Neuromancer / Andrew M. Butler -- Kim Stanley Robinson : Mars trilogy / Carol Franko -- Iain M. Banks : Excession / Farah Mendlesohn. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143301803321 |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Critical theory and science fiction [[electronic resource]] / Carl Freedman |
Autore | Freedman Carl Howard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8195-7454-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Critical Theory and Science Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Definitions; Critical Theory; Science Fiction; 2. Articulations; Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia; Science Fiction and the Canon; 3. Excursuses; Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia
The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of GenderStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities; Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462618503321 |
Freedman Carl Howard | ||
Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Critical theory and science fiction [[electronic resource]] / Carl Freedman |
Autore | Freedman Carl Howard |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
ISBN | 0-8195-7454-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Critical Theory and Science Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Definitions; Critical Theory; Science Fiction; 2. Articulations; Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia; Science Fiction and the Canon; 3. Excursuses; Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia
The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of GenderStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities; Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787532203321 |
Freedman Carl Howard | ||
Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Critical theory and science fiction [[electronic resource]] / Carl Freedman |
Autore | Freedman Carl Howard |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
ISBN | 0-8195-7454-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Critical Theory and Science Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Definitions; Critical Theory; Science Fiction; 2. Articulations; Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia; Science Fiction and the Canon; 3. Excursuses; Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia
The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of GenderStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities; Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817091903321 |
Freedman Carl Howard | ||
Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Exploring science through science fiction / / Barry B. Luokkala |
Autore | Luokkala Barry B |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Springer, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 241 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
Disciplina |
500
809.3/8762 |
Collana | Science and Fiction |
Soggetto topico |
Science in motion pictures
Science fiction films Literature and science Science in mass media |
ISBN | 1-4614-7891-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- 1 Introduction: Discerning the Real, the Possible and the Impossible -- 2 What is the Nature of Space and Time? (the physics of space travel and time travel) -- 3 What is the Universe Made of? (matter, energy and interactions) -- 4 Can a Machine Become Self-Aware? (the sciences of computing and cognition) -- 5 Are We Alone in the Universe? (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) -- 6 What does it Mean to be Human? (biological sciences, biotechnology and other considerations) -- 7 How do We Solve Our Problems? (science, technology and society) -- 8 What Lies Ahead? (the future of our technological society) -- Appendix A: Catalog of Movies Cited -- Appendix B: Catalog of Television Series Episodes Cited -- Appendix C: Catalog of YouTube Videos Cited -- Appendix D: Solutions to Estimation Problems. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300390003321 |
Luokkala Barry B | ||
New York : , : Springer, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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