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Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction
Tom Shippey
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Description for Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction
Hardcover. An exploration of politics and the role of the 'soft sciences' in Science Fiction. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a high-information genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, the right word , preferring le mot imprevisible, the unpredictable word . Both ideals shun the facilior lectio, the easy reading , but for different reasons ... Read more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The fifteen essays collected in Hard Reading argue, first, that science fiction has its own internal rhetoric, relying on devices such as neologism, dialogism, semantic shifts, the use of unreliable narrators. It is a high-information genre which does not follow the Flaubertian ideal of le mot juste, the right word , preferring le mot imprevisible, the unpredictable word . Both ideals shun the facilior lectio, the easy reading , but for different reasons ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781382615
SKU
V9781781382615
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About Tom Shippey
Tom Shippey is Professor Emeritus at Saint Louis University and has published widely, especially on J. R. R. Tolkien. He was special academic advisor to director Peter Jackson for the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit films.
Reviews for Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction
'This is an engaging and thought-provoking (or debate-provoking) selection of work.' Jack Fennell, Fantastika 'In Hard Reading, Shippey discusses a wide-ranging variety of authors whose work has a clearly unacknowledged Wellsian streak. As a collection of essays written over a period of the past fifty years or so, Shippey's book demonstrates an increasing density and intricacy of ... Read more