Structural Fabulation
Author : Robert Scholes
Publisher : Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
A Rhetoric of the Unreal
Author : Christine Brooke-Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1981-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521225618
Book Description
This 1981 book is a study of wide range of fiction, from short stories to tales of horror, from fairy-tales and romances to science fiction, to which the rather loose term 'fantastic' has been applied. Cutting across this wide field, Professor Brooke-Rose examines in a clear and precise way the essential differences between these types of narrative against the background of realistic fiction. In doing so, she employs many of the methods of modern literary theory from Russian formalism to structuralism, while at the same time bringing to these approaches a sharp critical intuition and sound common sense of her own. The range of texts considered is broad: from Poe and James to Tolkien; from Flann O'Brien to the American postmodernism. This book should prove a source of stimulation to all teachers and students of modern literary theory and genre, as well as those interested in 'fantastic' literature.
Science Fiction
Author : Adam Charles Roberts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Men in black (Motion picture)
ISBN : 9780415366687
Book Description
'Science Fiction' offers a critical account of the phenomenon of science fiction, illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history. The impact of technological advances on the genre is discussed.
Structural Fabulation
Author : Robert E. Scholes
Publisher :
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Structural Fabulation
Author : Robert Scholes
Publisher : Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 1975
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780268005719
Book Description
The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction
Author : Peter Brigg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786480297
Book Description
From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more difficult) to the present day, writers have been incorporating science--not only the commonly thought of science and technology but also the "soft" sciences such as psychology and sociology--into what was previously considered mainstream fiction. This book examines works by Thomas Pynchon, Doris Lessing, and others who incorporate science in fiction and exemplify the movement of mainstream fiction writers toward a new genre termed "span." It also examines works by some science fiction writers who are edging closer to the border of science fiction and slowly over into span. This book maps the boundaries of the new span genre of fiction and thus helps define texts that fall outside the realms of mainstream and science fiction. Diagrams are included and a bibliography and index.
A Companion to Science Fiction
Author : David Seed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470797010
Book Description
A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Curriculum
Author : William Pinar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135636583
Book Description
This collection of essays by established writers in postmodern pedagogy stakes out new conceptual territories, redefines the field, and presents a complete review of contemporary curriculum practice and theory in a single volume Drawing upon contemporary research in political, feminist, theological, literary, and racial theory, this anthology reformulates the research methodologies of the discipline and creates a new paradigm for the study of curriculum into the next century. The contributors consider gender, identity, narrative and autobiography as vehicles for reviewing the current and future state of curriculum studies. Special Features Presents new essays by established writers in postmodern pedagogy, Reviews curriculum studies through the filters of race, gender, identity, nattative, and autobiography, Offers in a single, affordable volume a complete review of contemporary curriculum practice and theory.
Science Fiction
Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134211783
Book Description
Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this volume includes: a concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the genre has been used and defined explanations of key concepts in Science Fiction criticism and theory through chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphor examines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science Fact anchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story, book or film, from Frank Herbert’s Dune to Star Wars, from The Left Hand of Darkness to Neuromancer. Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the essential contemporary guide to a major cultural movement.
Wilderness Visions
Author : David Mogen
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0893704008
Book Description
A careful and meticulous study of the Western Theme in Science Fiction Literature. I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature, Vol. 1
