Flickones

Science Fiction By:"Roger Luckhurst" Published on 2005-05-06 by Polity In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, using the history of science and technology, political and economic history, and cultural theory to develop the means for understanding the unique qualities of the genre. Luckhurst reads science fiction as a literature of modernity. His astute analysis examines how the genre provides a constantly modulating record of how human embodiment is transformed by scientific and technological change and how the very sense of self is imaginatively recomposed in popular fictions that range from utopian possibility to Gothic terror. This highly readable study charts the overlapping yet distinct histories of British and American scie...

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction By:"Edward James","Farah Mendlesohn" Published on 2003-11-20 by Cambridge University Press Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. It examines science fiction from Thomas More to the present day, and introduces important critical approaches including Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume. This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Pulp By:"Scott McCracken" Published on 1998-09-15 by Manchester University Press Bringing together chapters on the bestseller, detective fiction, popular romance, science fiction and horror, this text provides an account of the cultural theories that have informed the study of popular fiction. This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction By:"David Seed" Published on 2011-06-23 by Oxford University Press David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it in relation to themes such as science and technology, space, aliens, utopias, and gender. Looking at some of the most influential writers of the genre he also considers the wider social and political issues it raises. This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

A Companion to Science Fiction By:"David Seed" Published on 2008-04-15 by John Wiley & Sons A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular no...

Animal Alterity By:"Sherryl Vint" Published on 2012-03-01 by Liverpool University Press Uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. This title argues that we are better able to perceive options for a transformed politics if we perceive our various material relations with non-human animals within a deeper understanding of the functions of the category 'animal'. This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword science fiction.

Utopian and Science Fiction by Women By:"Jane L. Donawerth" Published on 1994 by Syracuse University Press This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Romantic Prose Fiction By:"Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie","Manfred Engel","Bernard Dieterle" Published on 2008 by John Benjamins Publishing In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of Romantic discourse to reshape imaginative writing, and a series of crucial reactions to the impact of Romanticism on cultural life down to the present, both in Europe and in the New World. Through its combination of chapters on thematic, generic, and discursive features, Romantic Prose Fiction achieves a unique theoretical stance, by considering the opinions of primary Romantics and their successors not as guiding \u0093truths\u0094 by which to define the permanent \u0093meaning\u0094 of Romanticism, but as data of cultural history t...

Fiction and Metaphysics By:"Amie L. Thomasson" Published on 1999 by Cambridge University Press Amie Thomasson argues that fiction has far-reaching implications for central problems of metaphysics. This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

Anticipations By:"David Seed" Published on 1995-01-01 by Syracuse University Press This volume of essays examines early, primarily nineteenth-century, examples of science fiction. The essays focus particularly on how this fiction engages with such contemporary issues as exploration, the development of science and social planning. Several of the writers discussed (Mary Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells) have been proposed by literary historians as the founders of science fiction. The aim in these essays, however, is not to privilege one individual, but rather to look at the gradual convergence of a number of different genres and at the process of continuing influence of one writer on his/her successor. The collection strikes a balance between a discussion of the established names within the field and less well known works such as Symzonia and The Battle of Dorking. The volume concludes with a consideration of the utopias and dystopias of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur...

Elements of Fiction Writing - Plot By:"Ansen Dibell" Published on 1999-07-15 by Writer's Digest Books \ This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword fiction.

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction By:"Edward James","Farah Mendlesohn" Published on 2003-11-20 by Cambridge University Press Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. It examines science fiction from Thomas More to the present day, and introduces important critical approaches including Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume. This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword science fiction.

The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction By:"Justine Larbalestier" Published on 2002 by Wesleyan University Press How women and feminism helped to shape science fiction in America. This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword fiction.