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Critical theory and science fiction / Carl Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, Carl Howard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delany, Samuel R. Stars in my pocket like grains of sand.
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- Dispossessed.
- Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Dick, Philip K. Man in the high castle.
- Dick, Philip K.
- Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011. Two of them.
- Russ, Joanna.
- Lem, Stanisław. Solaris.
- Lem, Stanisław.
- Science fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory.
- Contents:
- Cover; Critical Theory and Science Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Definitions; Critical Theory; Science Fiction; 2. Articulations; Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia; Science Fiction and the Canon; 3. Excursuses; Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia
- The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of GenderStars 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; Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 5, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780819574541
- 0819574546
- OCLC:
- 856934538
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