Styles of Creation
Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds
Published on 1. January 1993
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-8203-1455-6 (ISBN)
Description
The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis on stylistics in science fiction and fantasy writing and the critical limitations imposed by prevailing literary theory. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors show how a new, or expanded, set of methods and models can enrich critical exchange within the genre and between it and other types of fiction.
The focus of the book is not entirely on critical restraints but also on the genre's robustly subversive, creative drive-its unwillingness or inability to pause for critical validation. The essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy writing as assess the genre's revolutionary qualities: its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices.
The focus of the book is not entirely on critical restraints but also on the genre's robustly subversive, creative drive-its unwillingness or inability to pause for critical validation. The essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy writing as assess the genre's revolutionary qualities: its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8203-1455-6 (9780820314556)
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George Slusser (Editor)
GEORGE SLUSSER is a professor comparative literature and director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Styles of Creation (Georgia).
Eric S. Rabkin (Editor)
ERIC S. RABKIN is a professor of English and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He has written or edited twenty books, including The Fantastic in Literature and Teaching Writing That Works.
GEORGE SLUSSER is a professor comparative literature and director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Styles of Creation (Georgia).
Eric S. Rabkin (Editor)
ERIC S. RABKIN is a professor of English and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He has written or edited twenty books, including The Fantastic in Literature and Teaching Writing That Works.