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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freedman, Carl Howard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hanover : University Press of New England, [2000]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lem, Stanisław. > Solaris.
Russ, Joanna, > 1937- > Two of them.
Dick, Philip K. > Man in the high castle.
Le Guin, Ursula K., > 1929- > Dispossessed.
Delany, Samuel R. > Stars in my pocket like grains of sand.
Russ, Joanna, > 1937-2011. > Two of them.
Le Guin, Ursula K., > 1929-2018. > Dispossessed.
Man in the high castle (Dick, Philip K.)
Dispossessed (Le Guin, Ursula K.)
Science-fiction anglaise > Histoire et critique > 20e siecle.
Science-fiction americaine > Histoire et critique > 20e siecle.
Kritische theorie.
Science fiction.
Letterkunde.
Science-Fiction
Kritische Theorie
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Science-fiction > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Science fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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