Critical Theory and Science Fiction - Brossura

Freedman, Carl

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0819563994 ISBN 13: 9780819563996

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Carl Freedman traces the fundamental and mostly unexamined relationships between the discourses of science fiction and critical theory, arguing that science fiction is (or ought to be) a privileged genre for critical theory. He 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 that likewise science fiction is one of the most theoretically informed areas of the literary profession. Extended readings of novels by five of the most important modern science fiction authors illustrate the affinity between science fiction and critical theory, in each case concentrating on one major novel that resonates with concerns proper to critical theory.

Freedman’s five readings are: Solaris: Stanislaw Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula LeGuin 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.

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L'autore:

CARL FREEDMAN is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, author of many articles and of George Orwell: A Study in Ideology and Literary Form (1988), and recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's 1999 Pioneer Award.

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Book by Freedman Carl

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0819563994
• ISBN 13: 9780819563996
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 206