Locating Science Fiction

by Milner, Andrew

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Title Statements

Full title :Locating Science Fiction.

Summary

Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts of its emergence and development. Locating Science Fiction effects a series of vital shifts in the way SF theory and criticism has conceptualised its subject, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of what is actually a messy amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Inspired by Raymond Williams's cultural mate.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Liverpool University Press
Place of Publication:Liverpool
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781781389218, 1781389217, 9781846317804, 1846317800, 9781846318429, 1846318424
oclc:on1027606272
LC Classification:PN3433.5
Dewey Decimal:809.38762

Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- 1. Memories of Dan Dare -- Memories of Science Fiction -- Literature, Genre and Popular Fiction -- Memories of Dan Dare -- Tales of Resonance and Wonder -- 2. Science Fiction and Selective Tradition -- Academic Definitions of Science Fiction -- Modernism, Modernity and Science Fiction -- Non-Academic Definitions of Science Fiction -- Rethinking Genre -- Rethinking Tradition -- 3. Science Fiction and The Cultural Field.

From the French Literary Field to the Global Science Fiction Field -- Ideas and Effects -- Science Fiction as Drama -- Science Fiction as Prose -- The Restricted Economy and Institutionalised Bourgeois Art -- 4. Radio Science Fiction and The Theory of Genre -- Cultural Materialism as Method -- Radio Technology and Science Fiction -- Radio Science Fiction Forms: Three Texts -- Radio Institutions -- 5. Science Fiction, Utopia and Fantasy -- The North American Argument -- The European Argument -- Science Fiction and Fantasy -- Utopianism in Popular Science Fiction -- 6. Science Fiction and Dystopia.

Future Stories and Futurologies -- Antipodean Utopias -- On…