Fights of Fancy - Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy

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 15 original essays consider armed conflict as a central aspect of science-fiction and fantasy writing. Looking beyond the superficial conventions of ray guns and aliens! they show how writers in the genre now are not so much imagining war more fully as they are ""re-imagining"" it. Zusammenfassung This collection of fifteen original essays offers new perspectives on armed conflict as a central aspect of science fiction and fantasy writing. It argues that these genres are no longer mired in epic or chivalric models but are responding to new and more complex “real-world” motivations for armed aggression.

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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 Edgar Slusser (Editor), Gary Westfahl (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.1993
• EAN: 9780820315331
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1533-1
• No. of pages: 224
• 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