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Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds (Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Lite)
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Description for Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds (Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Lite)
Hardcover. These essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy and assess the genre's revolutionary qualities, its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of "minor" devices. Editor(s): Slusser, George Edgar; Rabkin, Eric S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
The impetus behind this collection of essays is the tension between science fiction and fantasy writing's aesthetic emphasis on stylistics and the structural or systemic bias of prevailing literary theory. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors show how a new, or expanded, set of methods and models can enrich critical exchange within the genre and between it and other types of fiction. The focus of the book is not entirely on critical limitations, however, for the context in which the essayists write recognises the genre's robustly subversive, creative drive - its unwillingness or inability to pause for critical validation. ... Read more
The impetus behind this collection of essays is the tension between science fiction and fantasy writing's aesthetic emphasis on stylistics and the structural or systemic bias of prevailing literary theory. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors show how a new, or expanded, set of methods and models can enrich critical exchange within the genre and between it and other types of fiction. The focus of the book is not entirely on critical limitations, however, for the context in which the essayists write recognises the genre's robustly subversive, creative drive - its unwillingness or inability to pause for critical validation. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820314556
SKU
V9780820314556
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