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Science Fiction Criticism : an Anthology of Essential Writings.
Includes more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: ·Definitions and boundaries of the genre ·Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.