Styles of Creation - Aesthetic Techniques and the Creation of Fictional Worlds

Informationen zum Autor George Slusser (Editor) GEORGE SLUSSER is a professor comparative literature and director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Styles of Creation (Georgia). Eric S. Rabkin (Editor) ERIC S. RABKIN is a professor of English and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He has written or edited twenty books, including The Fantastic in Literature and Teaching Writing That Works . Klappentext These essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy and assess the genre's revolutionary qualities, its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of ""minor"" devices. Zusammenfassung The essays examine the proliferation of stylistic acts and experiments in science fiction and fantasy writing as assess the genre’s revolutionary qualities: its reordering of narrative priorities, inversion of consecrated categories, and elevation of “minor” devices.

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• Authors: George Edgar Rabkin Slusser
• Assisted by: Eric Rabkin (Editor), Eric S Rabkin (Editor), Eric S. Rabkin (Editor), George Slusser (Editor), George E. Slusser (Editor), George Edgar Slusser (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.1993
• EAN: 9780820314556
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1455-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Ea; Proceedings of the J. Lloyd Ea
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy