Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction / / Damien Broderick
| Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction / / Damien Broderick |
| Autore | Broderick Damien |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina |
813087620905
823.087609 |
| Collana | Popular fiction series |
| Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Discourse analysis, Literary Postmodernism (Literature) Semiotics and literature Narration (Rhetoric) Literary form |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-86006-4
1-280-14509-9 0-203-99321-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
READING 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
A 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 Learning 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 11 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450768903321 |
Broderick Damien
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction / / Damien Broderick
| Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction / / Damien Broderick |
| Autore | Broderick Damien |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina |
813087620905
823.087609 |
| Collana | Popular fiction series |
| Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Discourse analysis, Literary Postmodernism (Literature) Semiotics and literature Narration (Rhetoric) Literary form |
| ISBN |
1-134-86005-6
1-134-86006-4 1-280-14509-9 0-203-99321-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
READING 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
A 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 Learning 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 11 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783832303321 |
Broderick Damien
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction / / Damien Broderick
| Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction / / Damien Broderick |
| Autore | Broderick Damien |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina |
813087620905
823.087609 |
| Collana | Popular fiction series |
| Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, American - History and criticism
Science fiction, English - History and criticism Discourse analysis, Literary Postmodernism (Literature) Semiotics and literature Narration (Rhetoric) Literary form |
| ISBN |
1-134-86005-6
1-134-86006-4 1-280-14509-9 0-203-99321-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
READING 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
A 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 Learning 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 11 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910968500203321 |
Broderick Damien
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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