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Locating Science Fiction
Andrew Milner
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Description for Locating Science Fiction
Hardcover. A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 244 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts of its emergence and development. ... Read more
Locating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts of its emergence and development. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Series
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318429
SKU
V9781846318429
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Ref
99-50
About Andrew Milner
Andrew Milner is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University.
Reviews for Locating Science Fiction
Reviews '[A book of] calm sly good sense and hard thought about SF... the finest assessment of SF theory yet published.' John Clute, Strange Horizons 'Worth the attention of all sf scholars for the range and acuity of its conception of the genre as well as its theoretical rigor.' John Rieder, Science Fiction Studies
Science Fiction Studies, ... Read more
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