Locating science fiction

by Milner, Andrew

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Title Statements

Full title :Locating science fiction / Andrew Milner.

Summary

Locating Science Fiction is a major intervention in contemporary theoretical debates about science fiction as a literary, film and television genre and its relation to the immediately cognate genres of utopia, dystopia and fantasy. It asks and attempts to answer three general questions about science fiction: first, what was it? (a question that is addressed both positively, in relation to the genre itself, and negatively, in relation to utopia, dystopia and fantasy); second, when was it? That is, what was its time?; and third, where was it? that is, what was its geographical space? Through a comparative and historical framework that draws upon Raymond Williams' 'cultural materialism', Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Franco Moretti's application of world-systems theory to comparative literary studies, Milner delivers a critical tour-de-force that will push Science Fiction studies into new directions.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Liverpool University Press
Place of Publication:Liverpool
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 244 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781846318429, 1846318424, 1846317800, 9781846317804
oclc:ocn794592502
LC Classification:PN3433.5
Dewey Decimal:809.38762

Memories of Dan Dare -- Science fiction and selective tradition -- Science fiction and the cultural field -- Radio science fiction and the theory of genre -- Science fiction, utopia and fantasy -- Science fiction and dystopia -- When was science fiction? -- Where was science fiction? -- The uses of science fiction.