Title The ethics and poetics of alterity : new perspectives on genre literature / edited by Maylis Rospide and Sandrine Sorlin

Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Summary This volume focuses on language and ethics in literary genres, such as dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy, that depict encounters with alterity. Indeed, so-called "genre literature" embodies a heuristic model that dramatizes and exacerbates these encounters by featuring exotic, subhuman or post-human beings that defy human knowledge, elements particularly prevalent in science fiction and fantasy. These genres have often been regarded as an entertaining or escapist field that does not lend itself to ethical and poetical reflections, limiting its scope to a hollow and servile repetition of g Subject Other (Philosophy) in literature. Science fiction, English -- History and criticism Fantasy literature, English -- History and criticism Philosophy of language. Science fiction. Fantasy. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Fantasy literature, English Other (Philosophy) in literature Science fiction, English Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Rospide, Maylis, editor Sorlin, Sandrine, editor. ISBN 9781443881852 1443881856

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