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PublisherLiverpool University Press

ISBN-10178138116X

ISBN-139781781381168

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038696066

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Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameLocating Science Fiction

LanguageEnglish

SubjectScience Fiction & Fantasy

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorAndrew Milner

SeriesLiverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2013-557456

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"A book of calm sly good sense and hard thought about SF... the finest assessment of SF theory yet published."--John Clute, Strange Horizons "A consistently thoughtful account of its subject. The result never flags in offering consistently interesting insights into SF which do justice to its rich diversity."--David Seed, Key Words "Worth the attention of all SF scholars for the range and acuity of its conception of the genre as well as its theoretical rigor."--Science Fiction Studies, Volume 40, 2013 "Milner's cogent and authoritative examination ... constitutes a major new contribution to the field of SF studies ... as well as providing ecocritics with an invaluable resource for their own more targeted studies of SF texts."--Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, Worth the attention of all sf scholars for the range and acuity of its conception of the genre as well as its theoretical rigor. John Rieder, Science Fiction Studies, Volume 40, 'Worth the attention of all sf scholars for the range and acuity of its conception of the genre as well as its theoretical rigor.' John Rieder, Science Fiction Studies, Volume 40, Reviews '...a book of ... calm sly good sense and hard thought about SF... the finest assessment of SF theory yet published.' John Clute, Strange Horizons

Series Volume Number44

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal809.38762

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements List of Figures 1. Memories of Dan Dare Memories of Science Fiction. Literature, Genre and Popular Fiction. Memories of Dan Dare. Tales of Resonance and Wonder. 2. Science Fiction and Selective Tradition Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Modernism, Modernity and Science Fiction. Non-Academic Definitions of Science Fiction. Rethinking Genre. Rethinking Tradition. 3. Science Fiction and the Literary Field From the French Literary Field to the Global Science Fiction Field. Ideas and Effects. Science Fiction as Drama. Science Fiction as Prose. The Restricted Economy and Institutionalised Bourgeois Art. 4. Radio Science Fiction and the Theory of Genre Cultural Materialism as Method. Radio Technology and Science Fiction. Radio Science Fiction Forms: Three Texts. Radio Institutions. 5. Science Fiction, Utopia and Fantasy The North American Argument. The European Argument. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Utopianism in Popular Science Fiction. 6. Science Fiction and Dystopia The Antipathy to Dystopia. The Strange Case of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Science Fiction as a Generic Context. Three Intertexts. An Ideal Typology and Some Hypotheses. 7. When Was Science Fiction? Long Histories of Science Fiction. Science Fiction and the Structure of Feeling. Form and History. 8. Where Was Science Fiction? Postcolonial Theory and Science Fiction. World-Systems Theory and Science Fiction: The Anglo-French Core. The European Semiperiphery. From the Semiperiphery to Core: North America and Japan. 9. The Uses of Science Fiction Future Stories and Futurologies. Antipodean Utopias. On the Beach and The Sea and Summer. Anticipations of Phil Chase. Afterword. Works Cited Index

SynopsisLocating Science Fiction is a ground breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting book, a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. Academic literary criticism has tended to locate SF primarily in relation to the older genre of utopia; fan criticism primarily in relation to fantasy and SF in other media, especially film and television; popular fiction studies primarily in relation to other contemporary genres such as the romance and the thriller. This bold new synthesis relocates SF in relation to each of these other genres and media and also to the historical and geographic contexts of its emergence and development. Locating Science Fiction effects a series of vital shifts in the way SF theory and criticism has conceptualised its subject, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of what is actually a messy amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts. Inspired by Raymond Williams's cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture and Franco Moretti's application of world systems theory to literary studies, Locating Science Fiction draws on the disciplinary competences of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Sociology to produce a powerfully persuasive mode of analysis, engagement and argument., A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.

LC Classification NumberPN3433.5.M55 2014