Science Fiction Roots and Branches
Published on 13. July 1990
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-333-46908-8 (ISBN)
Description
These eleven challenging critical essays on late Victorian and modern science fiction focus primarily on the critical analyses of specific works in the light of current critical theory and debates about the social function and relevance of science fiction. Authors analysed include Morris, Stoker, Lem, Wyndham, Herbert and LeGuin. An appreciation by Sanislaw Lem, the foremost post-war science fiction writer, of H.G.Wells's "War of the Worlds" and a section on recent feminist science fiction and science fiction criticism completes the collection. A broad spectrum of critical and theoretical approaches are employed, but the book's main thrust is to seek to develop modes of explicating science fiction's social location as a literary genre in contemporary western society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-46908-8 (9780333469088)
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07/1990
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Content
Part 1 Some roots: Victorian science fiction and fantasy: counter projects: William Morris and the science fiction of the eighteen eighties, Darko Suvin; H.G.Wells' "The War of the Worlds", Stanislaw Lem; "Dracula" adn "The Beetle": imperial and sexual guilt and fear in late Victorian fantasy, Rhys Garnett. Part 2 Some branches: post-war science fiction: scientists in science fiction - enlightenment and after, Patrick Parrinder; the world as code and labyrinth: Stanislaw Lem's "Memoirs found in a bathtub", Jerzy Jarzebski; the neglected fiction of John Wyndham - "Consider Her Ways", trouble with lichen and web, Thomas D.Clarenson and Alice S.Clarenson; Frank Herbert's "Dune" and the discourse of Apocalyptic ecologism in the United States, R.J.Ellis; Ursula K.LeGuin and Time's dispossession, Robert M.Philmus. Part 3 Some Branches: contemporary feminist responses: men in feminist science fiction - Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger, and the End of Masculinity, Marleen Bar; the destabilization of gender in Vonda MacIntyre's "Superluminal", Jenny Wolmark; man-made monsters - Suzy McKee Charnas' "Walk to the End of the World" as Dystopian feminist science fiction, Anne Cranny Francis.