Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? - A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation

Informationen zum Autor Seo-Young Chu is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Klappentext In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, this title sheds light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource. It explores the globalized world, cyberspace, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which it locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, and films. Zusammenfassung In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory! this title sheds light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource. It explores the globalized world! cyberspace! and the rights of robots! all as referents for which it locates science-fictional representations in poems! novels! and films.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Seo-Young Chu
• Edition: Harvard University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 21.12.2010
• EAN: 9780674055179
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05517-9
• Pages: 316
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 243 mm x 30 mm
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Préparation de l'enseignement > Formation professionnelle; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers