Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers

This text focuses on major theoretical issues within science fiction as a genre, such as the relationship between science fiction and social, political and sexual radicalism, and whether science fiction opens up margins for resistance and experimentation.

List of contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Moore & K.Sayer PART ONE Novum Is As Novum Does; D.Suvin SF: Metaphor, Myth or Prophecy?; P.Parrinder Modernity as a Project and as Self-Criticism: The Historical Dialogue between Science Fiction and Utopia; G.Paschilidis On Science Fiction, Totality and Agency in the Nineties; T.Moylan PART TWO The Monsters of Botany and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; C.Seligo Contending Forces: Racial and Sexual Narratives in Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren ; J.A.Tucker The Death of the Author and the Power of Addiction in Naked Lunch and Blade Runner ; G.Pastorino The Informatic Jeremiad: Virtual Frontier and US Cyberculture; S.Proietti Doomsday Looms: Gudrun Pausewang's Anti-nuclear Novels; S.Tebutt In-Between Subjects: C.L. Moore's No Woman Born ; R.Baccolini (Re)Productive Fictions: Reproduction, Embodiment and Feminist Science in Marge Piercy's Science Fiction; J.Haran The Female State: Science Fiction Alternatives to the Patriarchy: Sheri Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming series; L.Jowett Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: John (Senior lecturer in Literary Studies University of Luton) Moore, Karen (Lecturer in Literary Studi Sayer, Karen (Lecturer in Literary Studies Sayer
• Assisted by: Moore (Editor), J. Moore (Editor), John Moore (Editor), Sayer (Editor), K. Sayer (Editor), Karen Sayer (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2000
• EAN: 9780333740866
• ISBN: 978-0-333-74086-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies