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Author Freedman, Carl Howard

Title Critical theory and science fiction / Carl Freedman
Published Hanover : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, [2000]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 206 pages)
Contents Critical theory -- Science fiction -- 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 -- 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 gender -- Stars 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
Summary This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory. The author asserts that it is no accident that the upsurge of academic interest in science fiction since the 1970s coincides with the heyday of literary theory, and that likewise science fiction is one of the most theoretically informed areas of the literary profession. Extended readings of novels by five important modern science fiction authors illustrate the affinity between science fiction and critical theory, in each case concentrating on one major novel that resonates with concerns proper to critical theory
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Delany, Samuel R. Stars in my pocket like grains of sand
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018. Dispossessed
Dick, Philip K. Man in the high castle.
Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011. Two of them
Lem, Stanisław. Solaris
SUBJECT Dispossessed (Le Guin, Ursula K.) fast
Man in the high castle (Dick, Philip K.) fast
Subject Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Kritische Theorie
Science-Fiction
Letterkunde.
Science fiction.
Kritische theorie.
Science-fiction américaine -- Histoire et critique -- 20e siècle.
Science-fiction anglaise -- Histoire et critique -- 20e siècle.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780819574541
0819574546