Science Fiction Criticism : An Anthology of Essential Writings |
Autore | Latham Rob |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Literature: history & criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9781474248631
1-4742-4865-9 1-4742-4864-0 |
Classificazione | 809.38762 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 DEFINITIONS AND BOUNDARIES -- 1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine / Hugo Gernsback -- 2 Preface to The Scientific Romances / H. G. Wells -- 3 On the writing of speculative fiction / Robert A. Heinlein -- 4 What do you mean: Science? Fiction? / Judith Merril -- 5 Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology / Bruce Sterling -- 6 Cybernetic deconstructions: Cyberpunk and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- 7 The many deaths of science fiction: A polemic / Roger Luckhurst -- 8 On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history / John Rieder -- Genre as a historical process -- Categorization and communities of practice -- Recommended further reading --
PART 2 STRUCTURE AND FORM -- 9 Which way to inner space? / J. G. Ballard -- 10 About 5,750 words / Samuel R. Delany -- 11 On the poetics of the science fiction genre / Darko Suvin -- Science fiction as fiction (Estrangement) -- Science fiction as cognition (critique and science) -- Science fiction as a literary genre (functions and models) -- For a poetics of science fiction (summation and anticipation) -- 12 The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction / Marc Angenot : 1 Sign/referent/paradigm ; 2 Neologisms and fictive words ; 3 Exolinguistics ; 4 From the actual syntagm to the missing paradigm ; 5 The missing paradigm, the empirical paradigm, and the referent -- 13 Reading sf as a mega-text / Damien Broderick -- 14 Time travel and the mechanics of narrative / David Wittenberg : First reading: Fabula and Sjuzhet in Up the Line ; Second reading: Psychohistoriography in Behold the Man ; Third reading: The ontology of the event in "All the Myriad Ways" ; Contexts, methods, directions ; Genre history ; Recommended further reading -- PART 3 IDEOLOGY AND WORLD VIEW -- 15 Mutation or death! / John B. Michel -- 16 The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- 17 The image of women in science fiction / Joanna Russ : Intergalactic suburbia ; Down among the he-men ; Equal is as equal does ; Matriarchy ; Women's fiction: Potpourri ; An odd equality -- 18 Progress versus Utopia - or, can we imagine the future? / Fredric Jameson -- 19 Science fiction and critical theory /Carl Freedman : 1 Definitions ; 2 Articulations ; 3 Excursuses ; 4 Conclusions -- 20 Alien cryptographies: The view from queer / Wendy Pearson : 1 Introduction: Fear of a queer galaxy ; 2 (E)strange(d) fictions: Who goes there? ; 3 Alien nation: Visualizing the (in)visible ; 4 Becoming alien, becoming homosexual: From cyptography to cartography ; 5 Conclusion: An alien cartography -- 21 The women history doesn't see: Recovering midcentury women's sf as a literature of social critique / Lisa Yaszek : Recovering the domestic decades in feminist history and feminist science fiction studies ; Midcentury peace activism and SF's nuclear holocaust narrative ; The civil rights movement and SF's "encounter with the alien other" ; Conclusion: Feminist history and feminist SF studies reconsidered -- PART 4 - THE NONHUMAN -- 22 Author's introduction to Frankenstein -- 23 The android and the human -- 24 A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century : An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit ; Fractured identities ; The informatics of domination ; Women in the integrated circuit ; Cyborgs: a myth of political identity -- 25 Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers : Signifying the processes of production ; Information narratives and bodies of information ; Functionalities of narrative -- 26 The coming technological singularity: How to survive in a post-human era : What is the singularity? ; Can the singularity be avoided? ; Other paths to the singularity: Intelligence Amplification ; Strong superhumanity and the best we can ask for -- 27 Aliens in the fourth dimension : When two worlds collide ; Interview with the alien ; Speech and silence ; Convergent evolution -- 28 Technofetishism and the uncanny desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots) : Alt.sex.fetish.robots ; But who is she really? ; The uncanny gynoid ; Mad love ; Eye robot -- 29 Animal alterity: Science fiction and human-animal studies -- PART 5 - RACE AND THE LEGACY OF COLONIALISM : 30 Science fiction and empire : SF and imperialism ; SF and empire -- 31 Further considerations on Afrofuturism : The war of countermemory ; The founding trauma ; Futurism fatigue ; Control through prediction ; SF capital ; The futures industry ; Market dystopia ; The museological turn ; Proleptic intervention ; Black Atlantic sonic process ; Afrophilia in excelsis ; The cosmogenetic moment ; Identification code unidentified ; The implications of revisionism ; The uses of alienation ; The extraterrestrial turn ; Temporal switchback ; Black-Atlantean mythos -- 32 Indigenous scientific literacies in Nalo Hopkinson's ceremonial worlds : Indigenous scientific literacies today ; Hinte songs, Maroon "break-aways," and oral traditions: The transmissions of indigenous scientific literacy ; "Lizards in trees feed me and teach me how to be invisible" ; "Take one, give back two" ; "Letting the sky into the bush" ; Ceremonial worlds -- 33 Biotic invasions: Ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction -- 34 Alien/Asian: Imagining the racialized future -- 35 Report from planet midnight : A reluctant ambassador from the planet of midnight ; Afterword -- 36 Future histories and cyborg labor: Reading borderlands science fiction after NAFTA. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511459903321 |
Latham Rob | ||
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Science Fiction Criticism : An Anthology of Essential Writings |
Autore | Latham Rob |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Literature: history & criticism |
ISBN |
1-4742-4865-9
1-4742-4864-0 |
Classificazione | 809.38762 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 DEFINITIONS AND BOUNDARIES -- 1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine / Hugo Gernsback -- 2 Preface to The Scientific Romances / H. G. Wells -- 3 On the writing of speculative fiction / Robert A. Heinlein -- 4 What do you mean: Science? Fiction? / Judith Merril -- 5 Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology / Bruce Sterling -- 6 Cybernetic deconstructions: Cyberpunk and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- 7 The many deaths of science fiction: A polemic / Roger Luckhurst -- 8 On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history / John Rieder -- Genre as a historical process -- Categorization and communities of practice -- Recommended further reading --
PART 2 STRUCTURE AND FORM -- 9 Which way to inner space? / J. G. Ballard -- 10 About 5,750 words / Samuel R. Delany -- 11 On the poetics of the science fiction genre / Darko Suvin -- Science fiction as fiction (Estrangement) -- Science fiction as cognition (critique and science) -- Science fiction as a literary genre (functions and models) -- For a poetics of science fiction (summation and anticipation) -- 12 The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction / Marc Angenot : 1 Sign/referent/paradigm ; 2 Neologisms and fictive words ; 3 Exolinguistics ; 4 From the actual syntagm to the missing paradigm ; 5 The missing paradigm, the empirical paradigm, and the referent -- 13 Reading sf as a mega-text / Damien Broderick -- 14 Time travel and the mechanics of narrative / David Wittenberg : First reading: Fabula and Sjuzhet in Up the Line ; Second reading: Psychohistoriography in Behold the Man ; Third reading: The ontology of the event in "All the Myriad Ways" ; Contexts, methods, directions ; Genre history ; Recommended further reading -- PART 3 IDEOLOGY AND WORLD VIEW -- 15 Mutation or death! / John B. Michel -- 16 The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- 17 The image of women in science fiction / Joanna Russ : Intergalactic suburbia ; Down among the he-men ; Equal is as equal does ; Matriarchy ; Women's fiction: Potpourri ; An odd equality -- 18 Progress versus Utopia - or, can we imagine the future? / Fredric Jameson -- 19 Science fiction and critical theory /Carl Freedman : 1 Definitions ; 2 Articulations ; 3 Excursuses ; 4 Conclusions -- 20 Alien cryptographies: The view from queer / Wendy Pearson : 1 Introduction: Fear of a queer galaxy ; 2 (E)strange(d) fictions: Who goes there? ; 3 Alien nation: Visualizing the (in)visible ; 4 Becoming alien, becoming homosexual: From cyptography to cartography ; 5 Conclusion: An alien cartography -- 21 The women history doesn't see: Recovering midcentury women's sf as a literature of social critique / Lisa Yaszek : Recovering the domestic decades in feminist history and feminist science fiction studies ; Midcentury peace activism and SF's nuclear holocaust narrative ; The civil rights movement and SF's "encounter with the alien other" ; Conclusion: Feminist history and feminist SF studies reconsidered -- PART 4 - THE NONHUMAN -- 22 Author's introduction to Frankenstein -- 23 The android and the human -- 24 A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century : An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit ; Fractured identities ; The informatics of domination ; Women in the integrated circuit ; Cyborgs: a myth of political identity -- 25 Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers : Signifying the processes of production ; Information narratives and bodies of information ; Functionalities of narrative -- 26 The coming technological singularity: How to survive in a post-human era : What is the singularity? ; Can the singularity be avoided? ; Other paths to the singularity: Intelligence Amplification ; Strong superhumanity and the best we can ask for -- 27 Aliens in the fourth dimension : When two worlds collide ; Interview with the alien ; Speech and silence ; Convergent evolution -- 28 Technofetishism and the uncanny desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots) : Alt.sex.fetish.robots ; But who is she really? ; The uncanny gynoid ; Mad love ; Eye robot -- 29 Animal alterity: Science fiction and human-animal studies -- PART 5 - RACE AND THE LEGACY OF COLONIALISM : 30 Science fiction and empire : SF and imperialism ; SF and empire -- 31 Further considerations on Afrofuturism : The war of countermemory ; The founding trauma ; Futurism fatigue ; Control through prediction ; SF capital ; The futures industry ; Market dystopia ; The museological turn ; Proleptic intervention ; Black Atlantic sonic process ; Afrophilia in excelsis ; The cosmogenetic moment ; Identification code unidentified ; The implications of revisionism ; The uses of alienation ; The extraterrestrial turn ; Temporal switchback ; Black-Atlantean mythos -- 32 Indigenous scientific literacies in Nalo Hopkinson's ceremonial worlds : Indigenous scientific literacies today ; Hinte songs, Maroon "break-aways," and oral traditions: The transmissions of indigenous scientific literacy ; "Lizards in trees feed me and teach me how to be invisible" ; "Take one, give back two" ; "Letting the sky into the bush" ; Ceremonial worlds -- 33 Biotic invasions: Ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction -- 34 Alien/Asian: Imagining the racialized future -- 35 Report from planet midnight : A reluctant ambassador from the planet of midnight ; Afterword -- 36 Future histories and cyborg labor: Reading borderlands science fiction after NAFTA. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793685503321 |
Latham Rob | ||
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Science Fiction Criticism : An Anthology of Essential Writings |
Autore | Latham Rob |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Literature: history & criticism |
ISBN |
1-4742-4865-9
1-4742-4864-0 |
Classificazione | 809.38762 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 DEFINITIONS AND BOUNDARIES -- 1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine / Hugo Gernsback -- 2 Preface to The Scientific Romances / H. G. Wells -- 3 On the writing of speculative fiction / Robert A. Heinlein -- 4 What do you mean: Science? Fiction? / Judith Merril -- 5 Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology / Bruce Sterling -- 6 Cybernetic deconstructions: Cyberpunk and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- 7 The many deaths of science fiction: A polemic / Roger Luckhurst -- 8 On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history / John Rieder -- Genre as a historical process -- Categorization and communities of practice -- Recommended further reading --
PART 2 STRUCTURE AND FORM -- 9 Which way to inner space? / J. G. Ballard -- 10 About 5,750 words / Samuel R. Delany -- 11 On the poetics of the science fiction genre / Darko Suvin -- Science fiction as fiction (Estrangement) -- Science fiction as cognition (critique and science) -- Science fiction as a literary genre (functions and models) -- For a poetics of science fiction (summation and anticipation) -- 12 The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction / Marc Angenot : 1 Sign/referent/paradigm ; 2 Neologisms and fictive words ; 3 Exolinguistics ; 4 From the actual syntagm to the missing paradigm ; 5 The missing paradigm, the empirical paradigm, and the referent -- 13 Reading sf as a mega-text / Damien Broderick -- 14 Time travel and the mechanics of narrative / David Wittenberg : First reading: Fabula and Sjuzhet in Up the Line ; Second reading: Psychohistoriography in Behold the Man ; Third reading: The ontology of the event in "All the Myriad Ways" ; Contexts, methods, directions ; Genre history ; Recommended further reading -- PART 3 IDEOLOGY AND WORLD VIEW -- 15 Mutation or death! / John B. Michel -- 16 The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- 17 The image of women in science fiction / Joanna Russ : Intergalactic suburbia ; Down among the he-men ; Equal is as equal does ; Matriarchy ; Women's fiction: Potpourri ; An odd equality -- 18 Progress versus Utopia - or, can we imagine the future? / Fredric Jameson -- 19 Science fiction and critical theory /Carl Freedman : 1 Definitions ; 2 Articulations ; 3 Excursuses ; 4 Conclusions -- 20 Alien cryptographies: The view from queer / Wendy Pearson : 1 Introduction: Fear of a queer galaxy ; 2 (E)strange(d) fictions: Who goes there? ; 3 Alien nation: Visualizing the (in)visible ; 4 Becoming alien, becoming homosexual: From cyptography to cartography ; 5 Conclusion: An alien cartography -- 21 The women history doesn't see: Recovering midcentury women's sf as a literature of social critique / Lisa Yaszek : Recovering the domestic decades in feminist history and feminist science fiction studies ; Midcentury peace activism and SF's nuclear holocaust narrative ; The civil rights movement and SF's "encounter with the alien other" ; Conclusion: Feminist history and feminist SF studies reconsidered -- PART 4 - THE NONHUMAN -- 22 Author's introduction to Frankenstein -- 23 The android and the human -- 24 A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century : An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit ; Fractured identities ; The informatics of domination ; Women in the integrated circuit ; Cyborgs: a myth of political identity -- 25 Virtual bodies and flickering signifiers : Signifying the processes of production ; Information narratives and bodies of information ; Functionalities of narrative -- 26 The coming technological singularity: How to survive in a post-human era : What is the singularity? ; Can the singularity be avoided? ; Other paths to the singularity: Intelligence Amplification ; Strong superhumanity and the best we can ask for -- 27 Aliens in the fourth dimension : When two worlds collide ; Interview with the alien ; Speech and silence ; Convergent evolution -- 28 Technofetishism and the uncanny desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots) : Alt.sex.fetish.robots ; But who is she really? ; The uncanny gynoid ; Mad love ; Eye robot -- 29 Animal alterity: Science fiction and human-animal studies -- PART 5 - RACE AND THE LEGACY OF COLONIALISM : 30 Science fiction and empire : SF and imperialism ; SF and empire -- 31 Further considerations on Afrofuturism : The war of countermemory ; The founding trauma ; Futurism fatigue ; Control through prediction ; SF capital ; The futures industry ; Market dystopia ; The museological turn ; Proleptic intervention ; Black Atlantic sonic process ; Afrophilia in excelsis ; The cosmogenetic moment ; Identification code unidentified ; The implications of revisionism ; The uses of alienation ; The extraterrestrial turn ; Temporal switchback ; Black-Atlantean mythos -- 32 Indigenous scientific literacies in Nalo Hopkinson's ceremonial worlds : Indigenous scientific literacies today ; Hinte songs, Maroon "break-aways," and oral traditions: The transmissions of indigenous scientific literacy ; "Lizards in trees feed me and teach me how to be invisible" ; "Take one, give back two" ; "Letting the sky into the bush" ; Ceremonial worlds -- 33 Biotic invasions: Ecological imperialism in new wave science fiction -- 34 Alien/Asian: Imagining the racialized future -- 35 Report from planet midnight : A reluctant ambassador from the planet of midnight ; Afterword -- 36 Future histories and cyborg labor: Reading borderlands science fiction after NAFTA. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826564603321 |
Latham Rob | ||
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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