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Informationen zum Autor Frank McConnell (1942-1999) was a professor of English at Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He wrote a regular column on the media for Commonweal magazine, and his voluminous body of work included four detective novels and a number of academic books. Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina. Klappentext A member of the Pulitzer Prize jury, the late Frank McConnell helped science fiction gain standing as serious literature. His 16 essays herein were first presented as papers at the prestigious Eaton Conferences. Initially believing that science fiction is primarily one of many forms of storytelling, McConnell gradually recognized science fiction as a modern expression of Gnosticism, rejecting bodily concerns for an emphasis on spirituality. Zusammenfassung Recognizes science fiction as a modern expression of Gnosticism! rejecting bodily concerns for an exclusive emphasis on spirituality. This book covers such topics as HG Wells! science fiction in academia! and the role of genre in storytelling. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Neil Gaiman Introduction by Gary Westfahl I. Frank McConnell B.C.E. (Before Coming to Eaton) 1. Born in Fire: The Ontology of the Monster 2. Song of Innocence: The Creature from the Black Lagoon 3. H.G. Wells: Utopia and Doomsday 4. Realist of the Fantastic: H.G. Wells about/in/on the Movies II. Slouching Toward Bedlam: The Early Eaton Essays 5. Sturgeon's Law: First Corollary 6. Boring Dates: Reflections on the Apocalypse Game 7. Frames in Search of a Genre 8. From Astarte to Barbie and Beyond: The Serious History of Dolls 9. The Playing Fields of Eden 10. It's Only a Paper Moon: Fantasy and the Professors 11. "Turn That Shit Down!" Or, How to Market an Underground III. Gnostic Lunch: The Later Eaton Essays 12. Alimentary, My Dear Watson: Food and Eating in Scientific and Mystery Fiction 13. You Bet Your Life: Death and the Storyteller 14. Seven Types of Chopped Liver: My Adventures in the Genre Wars 15. The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kervorkian 16. The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: A Storytelling Animal in an Inhospitable World Epilogue: Memories of Frank Paul Alkon Gregory Benford Harold Bloom Sheila Finch Carl Freedman Howard V. Hendrix Bruce Kawin Joseph D. Miller Eric S. Rabkin Mark Rose George Slusser Chapter Notes A Bibliography of the Works of Frank McConnell A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Works Cited in the Text Index ...
