Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 513 g
Reihe: Popular Fictions Series
Postmodern Science Fiction
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 513 g
Reihe: Popular Fictions Series
ISBN: 978-0-415-09788-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers.
Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelists and theorists including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson and Samuel R. Delaney.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Part 1 Modern Science Fiction; Chapter 1 New World, New Texts; Chapter 2 Generic Engineering; Chapter 3 Genre or Mode?; Chapter 4 The Uses of Otherness; Chapter 5 Reading the Episteme; Chapter 6 Dreams of Reason and Unreason; Chapter 7 The Stars My Dissertation; Part 2 Postmodern Science Fiction; Chapter 8 Making Up Worlds; Chapter 9 Allography and Allegory; Chapter 10 Sf as a Modular Calculus; Chapter 11 The Multiplicity of Worlds, of Others; Chapter 12 The Autumnal City;