Locating science fiction
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 r…
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- Full title :Locating science fiction / Andrew Milner.
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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 geogra.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Liverpool University Press
- Place of Publication:Liverpool
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (528 p.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1781387052, 9781781387054, 1781389217, 9781781389218, 1846317800, 9781846317804
- oclc:on1162547513
- LC Classification:PN3433.6
- Dewey Decimal:809.38762
Table of Contents
Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Memories of Science Fiction; Literature, Genre and Popular Fiction; Memories of Dan Dare; Tales of Resonance and Wonder; 1. Memories of Dan Dare; Academic Definitions of Science Fiction; Modernism, Modernity and Science Fiction; Non-Academic Definitions of Science Fiction; Rethinking Genre; Rethinking Tradition; 2. Science Fiction and Selective Tradition; 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 Art3. Science Fiction and The Cultural Field; Cultural Materialism as Method; Radio Technology and Science Fiction; Radio Science Fiction Forms: Three Texts; Radio Institutions; 4. Radio Science Fiction and The Theory of Genre; The North American Argument; The European Argument; Science Fiction and Fantasy; Utopianism in Popular Science Fiction; 5. Science Fiction, Utopia and Fantasy; The Antipathy to Dystopia; The Strange Case of Nineteen Eighty-Four; Science Fiction as a Generic Context; Three Intertexts
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