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Author : Eric Carl Link,Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107052468
This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.
Author : David Seed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135953829
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Various
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598531572
Collects nine classic science fiction novels from 1953 to 1958.
Author : Isiah Lavender
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253222596
Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science fiction contextualize race within the genre's better-known master narratives and agendas. Authors discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among many others.
Author : Thomas D. Clareson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015018312382
Discusses writers such as Poul Anderson, Brian W. Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Alfred Bester, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Algis Budrys, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Samuel R. Delany, Lester del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Thomas Disch, Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Randall Garrett, Robert A. Heinlein, Zenna Henderson, Frank Herbert, Damon Knight, Cyril Kornbluth, Ursula K. Le Guin, Murray Leinster, Anne McCaffrey, Judith Merril, A. Merritt, Walter M. Miller Jr., Michael Moorcock, Andre Norton, Alexei Panshin, H. Beam Piper, Frederik Pohl, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Cordwainer Smith, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Norman Spinrad, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Vance, A.E. van Vogt, Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Wollheim, RogerZelazny, Jack Williamson, and others.
Author : Vivian Carol Sobchack
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 081352492X
This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists. The book should appeal to both film buff and fans of science fiction.
Author : Jason Haslam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317574248
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode is not only able to illuminate the cultural and social histories of gender and race, but so too can it intervene in those histories, and highlight the ruptures present within them. The volume moves between material history and the linguistic nature of SF fantasies, from the specifics of race and gender at different points in American history to larger analyses of the socio-cultural functions of such identity categories. SF has already become central to discussions of humanity in the global capitalist age, and is increasingly the focus of feminist and critical race studies; in combining these earlier approaches, this book goes further, to demonstrate why SF must become central to our discussions of identity writ large, of the possibilities and failings of the human —past, present, and future. Focusing on the interplay of whiteness and its various 'others' in relation to competing gender constructs, chapters analyze works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip Francis Nowlan, George S. Schuyler and the Wachowskis, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, and Octavia Butler. Academics and students interested in the study of Science Fiction, American literature and culture, and Whiteness Studies, as well as those engaged in critical gender and race studies, will find this volume invaluable.
Author : Jan Johnson-Smith
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819567388
Science fiction TV and the American psyche.
Author : Diana Gabaldon,John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781328613103
"Featuring guest-editor contributions by the author of the Outlander series, a latest annual edition compiles top-selected short works of science fiction and fantasy from the year 2019."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476674940
By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of science fiction anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors and works. Included are in-depth studies of key texts that contributed to science fiction's growth, including Philip Francis Nowlan's first Buck Rogers story, the first published stories of A. E. van Vogt, and the early juveniles of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.
Author : Sharon DeGraw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135864590
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included a few elements of racial egalitarianism. Writing in the 1930s, George S. Schuyler revised Burroughs' normative SF triangle of white author, white audience, and white protagonist and promoted an individualistic, highly variable concept of race instead. While both Burroughs and Schuyler wrote SF focusing on racial identity, the largely separate genres of science fiction and African American literature prevented the similarities between the two authors from being adequately acknowledged and explored. Beginning in the 1960s, Samuel R. Delany more fully joined SF and African American literature. Delany expands on Schuyler's racial constructionist approach to identity, including gender and sexuality in addition to race. Critically intertwining the genres of SF and African American literature allows a critique of the racism in the science fiction and a more accurate and positive portrayal of the scientific connections in the African American literature. Connecting the popular fiction of Burroughs, the controversial career of Schuyler, and the postmodern texts of Delany illuminates a gradual change from a stable, essentialist construction of racial identity at the turn of the century to the variable, social construction of poststructuralist subjectivity today.
Author : Robert Yeates
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800080980
Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in literary magazines, before taking in radio dramas, film, video games and expansive transmedia franchises, Robert Yeates argues that post-apocalyptic representations of the American city are uniquely suited for explorations of contemporary urban issues. Examining how the post-apocalyptic American city has been repeatedly adapted and repurposed to new and developing media over the last century, this book reveals that the content and form of such texts work together to create vivid and immersive fictional spaces in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Chapters present media-specific analyses of these texts, situating them within their historical contexts and the broader history of representations of urban ruins in American fiction. Original in its scope and cross-media approach, American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction both illuminates little-studied texts and provides provocative new readings of familiar works such as Blade Runner and The Walking Dead, placing them within the larger historical context of imaginings of the American city in ruins.
Author : Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0819570834
Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.
Author : John Joseph Adams,N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 9781328834560
A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2017.
Author : Darrell B. Lockhart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313061554
Many readers are unaware of the vast universe of Latin American science fiction, which has its roots in the 18th century and has flourished to the present day. Because science fiction is part of Latin American popular culture, it reflects cultural and social concerns and comments on contemporary society. While there is a growing body of criticism on Latin American science fiction, most studies treat only a single author or work. This reference offers a broad overview of Latin American science fiction. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 70 Latin American science fiction writers. While some of these are canonical figures, others have been largely neglected. Since much of science fiction has been written by women, many women writers are profiled. Each entry is prepared by an expert contributor and includes a short biography, a discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.