Science Fiction

This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.>

About the author

Brian Baker is Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Baker
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 20.11.2014
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780230228139
• ISBN: 978-0-230-22813-9
• Pages: 192
• Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential C; Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism; Readers' Guides to Essential C
• Subjects: B; Fiction; Literature, Cultural and Media Studies; Fiction Literature; fiction;history of literature;postmodernism