Sleepless Nights In The Procrustean Bed

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497604353

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Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed by Harlan Ellison Pdf

A collection of twenty thought-provoking essays from “one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth” (Publishers Weekly). Harlan Ellison—master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent—has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of complacency. In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works to select twenty wide-ranging essays—nonfiction writings ranging from travelogue to media criticism, literary exploration to personal musing—that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award from PEN International for his journalistic forays.

Author : Harlan Ellison,Marty Clark
Publisher : Millefleurs
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0893702706

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Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed by Harlan Ellison,Marty Clark Pdf

Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587153303

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Complete Critical Assembly by David Langford Pdf

This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.

Author : George Edgar Slusser,Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820314552

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Styles of Creation by George Edgar Slusser,Eric S. Rabkin Pdf

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.

Author : Gary Westfahl,Gregory Benford,Howard V. Hendrix
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476637563

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Science Fiction and the Dismal Science by Gary Westfahl,Gregory Benford,Howard V. Hendrix Pdf

Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen contributors include five award-winning scholars, five science fiction writers, and a widely published economist. Three topics are covered: what noted science fiction writers like Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, and Kim Stanley Robinson have had to say about our economic and political future; how the competitive and ever-changing publishing marketplace has affected the growth and development of science fiction from the nineteenth century to today; and how the scholars who examine science fiction have themselves been influenced by the economics of academia. Although the essays focus primarily on American science fiction, the traditions of Russian and Chinese science fiction are also examined. A comprehensive bibliography of works related to science fiction and economics will assist other readers and critics who are interested in this subject.

Author : Michael Burgess
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809515059

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The Work of Robert Reginald by Michael Burgess Pdf

A bibliography of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, and publisher Robert Reginald, with an introduction by William F. Nolan and an Afterword by Jack Dann.

Author : Maura Heaphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598845068

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Science Fiction Authors by Maura Heaphy Pdf

For students, scholars, readers' advisors, and curious SF readers and fans, this guide provides an easy-to-use launch pad for researching and learning more about science fiction writers and their work. Emphasizing the best popular and contemporary authors, this book covers 100 SF writers, providing for each: • a brief biographical sketch, including a quote from theauthor, awards, etc. • a list of the author's major works (including editions and other writings) • research sources-biographies, criticism, research guides, and web sites • In addition, you'll find read-alike lists for selected authors. For anyone wanting to find information on popular SF authors, this should be the first stop.

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476638515

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The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s by Gary Westfahl Pdf

 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 SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors. 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 : R. Reginald,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Mary A. Burgess
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780809512065

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BP 250 by R. Reginald,Mary Wickizer Burgess,Mary A. Burgess Pdf

An Annotated Bibliography of the First 300 Publications of the Borgo Press, 1975-1998

Author : Brett Cooke,George E. Slusser,Jaume Marti-Olivella
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004455016

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The Fantastic Other by Brett Cooke,George E. Slusser,Jaume Marti-Olivella Pdf

The Fantastic Other is a carefully assembled collection of essays on the increasingly significant question of alterity in modern fantasy, the ways in which the understanding and construction of the Other shapes both our art and our imagination. The collection takes a unique perspective, seeing alterity not merely as a social issue but as a biological one. Our fifteen essays cover the problems posed by the Other, which, after all, go well beyond the bounds of any single critical perspective. With this in mind, we have selected studies to show how insights from deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and Freudian, Jungian and evolutionary psychology help us understand an issue so central to the act of reading.

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781440866173

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Science Fiction Literature through History [2 volumes] by Gary Westfahl Pdf

This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field.

Author : Jo Walton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466865730

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An Informal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton Pdf

Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many who enjoyed Jo Walton's previous collection of writing from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great. The Hugo Awards, named after pioneer science-fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society, have been presented since 1953. They are widely considered the most prestigious awards in science fiction. Between 2010 and 2013, Jo Walton wrote a series of posts for Tor.com, surveying the Hugo finalists and winners from the award's inception up to the year 2000. Her contention was that each year's full set of finalists generally tells a meaningful story about the state of science fiction at that time. Walton's cheerfully opinionated and vastly well-informed posts provoked valuable conversation among the field's historians. Now these posts, lightly revised, have been gathered into this book, along with a small selection of the comments posted by SF luminaries such as Rich Horton, Gardner Dozois, and David G. Hartwell. "A remarkable guided tour through the field—a kind of nonfiction companion to Among Others. It's very good. It's great."—New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing on What Makes This Book So Great At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497604629

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The Harlan Ellison Hornbook by Harlan Ellison Pdf

The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author probes topics ranging from departed pets to Lenny Bruce and San Quentin in this provocative collection of essays. A major collection of Harlan Ellison’s incomparable, troublemaking, uncompromising, confrontational essays and newspaper columns, The Harlan Ellison Hornbook mines deep into the author’s colorful past. Failed love affairs, departed pets, a defense of comic books—in lesser hands, these subjects would be pabulum or treacle. When Harlan Ellison is behind the typewriter, the mundane becomes an all‐out intellectual brawl. Emotionally moving and verbally stimulating, these columns cannot be missed, especially Ellison’s article on controversial comedian Lenny Bruce or the chilling account of the author’s trip to visit a death row inmate in San Quentin State Prison.

Author : Robert Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434443564

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Operation Crimson Storm by Robert Reginald Pdf

Twelve years after the events of Invasion!, Earth prepares to retaliate by mounting an expedition against the Martians. With great difficulty, our Space Force establishes bases on the two Martian moons, and also on the surface of the Red Planet. But a series of firefights demonstrate that the aliens hold the upper hand, and that communication between the species is the only thing that will keep our bases from being exterminated. Alex Smith once again must step forward, and offer himself as part-prisoner, guest, interpreter, guinea pig, negotiator, and--ultimately--the last, best hope of mankind. But finding any consistent and understandable method of communication with a truly alien race is almost impossible. Can the gulf be breached in time? War of Two Worlds, Book Two.

Author : J. P. Telotte,Gerald Duchovnay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381830

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Science Fiction Double Feature by J. P. Telotte,Gerald Duchovnay Pdf

Critical discussion of cult cinema has often noted its tendency to straddle or ignore boundaries, to pull together different sets of conventions, narrative formulas, or character types for the almost surreal pleasure to be found in their sudden juxtapositions or narrative combination. With its own boundary-blurring nature - as both science and fiction, reality and fantasy - science fiction has played a key role in such cinematic cult formation. This volume examines that largely unexplored relationship, looking at how the sf film's own double nature neatly matches up with a persistent double vision common to the cult film. It does so by bringing together an international array of scholars to address key questions about the intersections of sf and cult cinema: how different genre elements, directors, and stars contribute to cult formation; what role fan activities, including con participation, play in cult development; and how the occulted or bad sf cult film works. The volume pursues these questions by addressing a variety of such sf cult works, including Robot Monster (1953), Zardoz (1974), A Boy and His Dog (1975), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Space Truckers (1996), Ghost in the Shell 2 (2004), and Iron Sky (2012). What these essays afford is a revealing vision of both the sf aspects of much cult film activity and the cultish aspects of the whole sf genre.