Back to search results

Science fiction

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Book

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Title Science fiction : its criticism and teaching / Patrick Parrinder.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 2003
Notes First published 1980 by Routledge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION
The rise of science-fiction studies
Genre criticism
1 WORKING DAYDREAMS, WORKSHOP DEFINITIONS
The scientific romance
Logical speculation: H.G. Wells
The fiction of the magazines
Extrapolation: Robert A. Heinlein
The 'New Wave'
Definition by structure
Generic hybrids
2 THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE GENRE
SF as product
SF as message: readership and 'fandomSF as message: readership and 'fandom'
Modes of reading
SF as document: the 'thinking machine'
Literature and paraliterature3 SCIENCE FICTION AS ROMANCE
Contemporary mythology and the 'literature of wonder'
Functions and formulas
Domestication
Self-conscious romance
4 SCIENCE FICTION AS FABLE
Social criticism
Cognitive estrangement
Utopia and scientific materialism
Galactic imperialism
Liberation and power
5 SCIENCE FICTION AS EPIC
SF and the historical novel
Truncated epic
Scientific anticipation
The future histories
6 IMITATION AND NOVELTY: AN APPROACH THROUGH SF LANGUAGE
Authenticity and the literary hoax
The language of novelty
The absent signified
Intertextuality and parodyEntropy and disintegration
Romance, fable, epic and parody: Lem's Solaris
7 THE SCIENCE-FICTION COURSE
The 'two cultures' debate and the student revolution
Consolidation and canon-formation
The strange and the familiar
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Series The new accents series
Extent 1 online resource (187 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010710206205171
MARC RECORDS
Tags

Have more information? Found a mistake?

More on this subject

Catch minitales : short science fiction stories with a sting! / by Stephen Bowkett.
Book
The ethics and poetics of alterity : new perspectives on genre literature / edited by Maylis Rospide and Sandrine Sorlin.
Book
Paratexts [electronic resource] introductions to science fiction and fantasy / James Gunn.
Book

This may also interest you

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

While we all sit, as we do every year, at the Seder table, while we sing, ask questions, read the Haggadah and enjoy the holiday meal, hundreds of families among us will not be able to do this. Their holiday spirit, their joy, their loved ones were taken from them.  Their loved ones were kidna

To the article on our blog
Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

As opposed to the Passover Haggadah, the Jewish Midrash tells us of the significant role played by Miriam the Prophetess in the Exodus from Egypt. Every Passover we are told of the Children of Israel’s journey from slavery to freedom, but it often goes unmentioned that Miriam the Prophetess, sister

To the article on our blog
World War II

World War II

World War II was the most destructive and deadly war in human history. The war officially began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Although the invasion of Poland is commonly seen as the first act of war, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria and its occupation of Czechoslovakia i

More on this subject