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Title Coordinates : placing science fiction and fantasy / edited by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. [electronic resource] [Alternatives ]
Publisher Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Creation Date c1983
Notes Essays presented at the 3rd J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy held Feb. 21-22, 1981, at the University of California, Riverside.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content The criticism of science fiction / Leslie Fiedler -- The descent of fantasy / Eric S. Rabkin -- How new is new? / Gerald Prince -- Jules Verne: journey to the center of science fiction / Mark Rose -- Manifest destiny: science fiction and classical form / Joseph M. Lenz -- "All you have to do is know what you want": individual expectations in Triton / Michelle Massé -- Autoplastic and alloplastic adaptations in science fiction: "Waldo" and "Desertion" / Gary K. Wolfe -- Science fiction for the age of inflation: reading Atlas shrugged in the 1980s / Robert Hunt -- Fahrenheit 451 and the "cubby-hole editors" of Ballantine Books / George R. Guffey -- America as science fiction: 1939 / H. Bruce Franklin -- Rider Haggard's heart of darkness / Sandra M. Gilbert -- She in Herland: feminism as fantasy / Susan Gubar -- Death and the mirror: existential fantasy / George E. Slusser.
Series Alternatives Coordinates
Extent 1 online resource (xii, 209 p. )
Language English
National Library system number 997010702007105171
MARC RECORDS
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