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Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Definitions
2. A History of the Histories
3. Science Fiction Writers on Science Fiction
4. The British Tradition
5. The US Tradition
6. Utopias and Dystopias
7. Feminism, Science Fiction and Cyberpunk
8. Science Fiction and Cinema
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Product details
Published | 20 Nov 2014 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 192 |
ISBN | 9780230228139 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Dimensions | Not specified |
Series | Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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