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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Author : Mark Bould
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2009-03-30
ISBN 13 : 1135228361
Pages : 577 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (228 downloads)

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Download The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Mark Bould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at: history – an integrated chronological narrative of the genre’s development theory – detailed accounts of major theoretical approaches including feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism and utopian studies issues and challenges – anticipates future directions for study in areas as diverse as science studies, music, design, environmentalism, ethics and alterity subgenres – a prismatic view of the genre, tracing themes and developments within specific subgenres. Bringing into dialogue the many perspectives on the genre The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and the future of science fiction and the way it is taught and studied.

A Companion to Science Fiction

Author : David Seed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-06-09
ISBN 13 : 0470797010
Pages : 631 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (797 downloads)

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Download A Companion to Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by David Seed and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 novels, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-20
ISBN 13 : 9780521016575
Pages : 330 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (521 downloads)

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Download The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

A Companion to Science Fiction

Author : David Seed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-06-09
ISBN 13 : 0470797010
Pages : 628 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (797 downloads)

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Download A Companion to Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by David Seed and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 novels, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

Teaching Science Fiction

Author : A. Sawyer
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2011-03-24
ISBN 13 : 0230300391
Pages : 266 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (3 downloads)

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Download Teaching Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by A. Sawyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.

Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010

Author : Sara Wasson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
ISBN 13 : 184631707X
Pages : 241 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (317 downloads)

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Download Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 PDF Format Full Free by Sara Wasson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic fiction's focus on the irrational and supernatural would seem to conflict with science fiction's rational foundations. However, as this novel collection demonstrates, the two categories often intersect in rich and revealing ways. Analyzing a range of works—including literature, film, graphic novels, and trading card games—from the past three decades through the lens of this hybrid genre, this volume examines their engagement with the era's dramatic changes in communication technology, medical science, and personal and global politics.

Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

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Release Date : 2003
ISBN 13 : 9785210165763
Pages : pages
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The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945

Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-12-08
ISBN 13 : 1107493544
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (493 downloads)

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Download The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 PDF Format Full Free by John N. Duvall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors during a period of enormous American global political and cultural power. This power is overshadowed, nevertheless, by national anxieties growing out of events ranging from the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of feminism; from the Cold War and its fear of Communism and nuclear warfare to the Age of Terror and its different yet related fears of the 'Other'. American fiction since 1945 has faithfully chronicled these anxieties. An essential reference guide, this Companion provides a chronology of the period, as well as guides to further reading.

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-10-01
ISBN 13 : 0810878844
Pages : 434 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (878 downloads)

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Download Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature PDF Format Full Free by M. Keith Booker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary covers the history of Science Fiction in literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries including significant people; themes; critical issues; and the most significant genres that have formed science fiction literature.

Science Fiction in India

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-30
ISBN 13 : 9354353436
Pages : 276 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (353 downloads)

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Download Science Fiction in India PDF Format Full Free by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global scene. Dalit speculative fiction writer and editor Mimi Mondal is the first SF writer from India to have been nominated for the prestigious Hugo award. In fact, Indian SF addresses themes such as global climate change. Debates around G.C.C are not just limited to science fiction but also permeate in critical discussions on SF. This volume seeks to examine the different ways by which Indian SF narratives construct possible national futures. For this looking forward necessarily germinates from the current positional concerns of the nation. While some work has been done on Indian SF, there is still a perceptible lack of an academic rigor invested into the genre; primarily, perhaps, because of not only its relative unpopularity in India, but also its employment of futuristic sights. Towards the same, among other things, it proposes to study the growth and evolution of science fiction in India as a literary genre which accommodates the duality of the national consciousness as it simultaneously gazes ahead towards the future and glances back at the past. In other words, the book will explore how the tensions generated by the seemingly conflicting forces of tradition and modernity within the Indian historical landscape are realized through characteristic tropes of SF storytelling. It also intends to look at the interplay between the spatio-temporal coordinates of the nation and the SF narratives produced within to see, firstly, how one bears upon the other and, secondly, how processes of governance find relational structures with such narratives. Through these, the volume wishes to interrogate how postcolonial futures promise to articulate a more representative and nuanced picture of a contemporary reality that is rooted in a distinct cultural and colonial past.

The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

Author : Eric Carl Link
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-26
ISBN 13 : 1107052467
Pages : 291 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (52 downloads)

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Download The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Eric Carl Link and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

Gothic Science Fiction

Author : S. MacArthur
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-25
ISBN 13 : 1137389273
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (389 downloads)

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Download Gothic Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by S. MacArthur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to Doctor Who and from H. G Wells to Stephen King, the book charts the rise of a genre and follows the descent into darkness that consumes it.

The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2019-10-04
ISBN 13 : 1476638519
Pages : 311 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (638 downloads)

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Download The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s PDF Format Full Free by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors. Included are in-depth studies of key texts that contributed to science fiction's growth, including Philip Francis Nowlan's first Buck Rogers story, the first published stories of A. E. van Vogt, and the early juveniles of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.

Science Fiction in Colonial India, 18351905

Author : Mary Ellis Gibson
Publisher : Anthem Press
Release Date : 2019-03-30
ISBN 13 : 1783088648
Pages : 186 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (88 downloads)

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Download Science Fiction in Colonial India, 18351905 PDF Format Full Free by Mary Ellis Gibson and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905" shows, for the first time, how science fiction writing developed in India years before the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The five stories presented in this collection, in their cultural and political contexts, help form a new picture of English language writing in India and a new understanding of the connections among science fiction, modernity and empire. [NP] Speculative fiction developed early in India in part because the intrinsic dysfunction and violence of colonialism encouraged writers there to project alternative futures, whether utopian or dystopic. The stories in "Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835–1905," created by Indian and British writers, responded to the intellectual ferment and political instabilities of colonial India. They add an important dimension to our understanding of Victorian empire, science fiction and speculative fictional narratives. They provide new examples of the imperial and the anti-imperial imaginations at work.

Eschatology and the Technological Future

Author : Michael S. Burdett
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-05
ISBN 13 : 1317576640
Pages : 290 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (576 downloads)

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Download Eschatology and the Technological Future PDF Format Full Free by Michael S. Burdett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid advancement of technology has led to an explosion of speculative theories about what the future of humankind may look like. These "technological futurisms" have arisen from significant advances in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology and are drawing growing scrutiny from the philosophical and theological communities. This text seeks to contextualize the growing literature on the cultural, philosophical and religious implications of technological growth by considering technological futurisms such as transhumanism in the context of the long historical tradition of technological dreaming. Michael Burdett traces the latent religious sources of our contemporary technological imagination by looking at visionary approaches to technology and the future in seminal technological utopias and science fiction and draws on past theological responses to the technological future with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul. Burdett’s argument arrives at a contemporary Christian response to transhumanism based around the themes of possibility and promise by turning to the works of Richard Kearney, Eberhard Jüngel and Jürgen Moltmann. Throughout, the author highlights points of correspondence and divergence between technological futurisms and the Judeo-Christian understanding of the future.

A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914

Author : Robert Paul Lamb
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
ISBN 13 : 1405178310
Pages : 640 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (178 downloads)

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Download A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914 PDF Format Full Free by Robert Paul Lamb and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children’s literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

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Release Date : 2009
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