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Critical theory and science fiction /

This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory. The author asserts that it is no accident that the upsurge of academic interest in science fiction since the 1970s coincides with the heyday of literary theory, and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freedman, Carl Howard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, [2000]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Critical theory
  • Science fiction
  • 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
  • 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 gender
  • Stars 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.