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| Author | : Edward James |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2003-11-20 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0521016576 |
| Pages | : 330 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (76 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
| Author | : Eric Carl Link |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2015-01-26 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781107052468 |
| Pages | : 291 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (524 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction written by Eric Carl Link and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.
| Author | : Gerry Canavan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2018-12-31 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781316733011 |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (33 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Science Fiction written by Gerry Canavan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
| Author | : John N. Duvall |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2012 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780521196314 |
| Pages | : 293 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (963 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 written by John N. Duvall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
| Author | : Edward James |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2012-01-26 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780521429597 |
| Pages | : 297 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (295 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature written by Edward James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of fantasy literature from its origins during the Enlightenment to the present, discussing its major themes and codes, writing and reading strategies, subgenres, and noteworthy writers.
| Author | : Gary Westfahl |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Release Date | : 2019-09-30 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781476674940 |
| Pages | : 312 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (749 users) |
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s written by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors. Included are in-depth studies of key texts that contributed to science fiction's growth, including Philip Francis Nowlan's first Buck Rogers story, the first published stories of A. E. van Vogt, and the early juveniles of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.
| Author | : David Glover |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2012-04-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780521513371 |
| Pages | : 245 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (133 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction written by David Glover and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
| Author | : Terence McSweeney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2022-02-22 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781000540642 |
| Pages | : 236 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (46 users) |
Download or read book Contemporary American Science Fiction Film written by Terence McSweeney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millennium, offering a ground-breaking investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern era. Placing one of the most popular and culturally resonant American film genres broadly within its rich social, historical, industrial, and political context, the book interrogates some of the defining critical debates of the era via an in-depth analysis of a range of important films. An international team of authors draw on case studies from across the science fiction genre to examine what these films can tell us about the time period, how the films themselves connect to the social and political context, how the fears and anxieties they portray resonate beyond the screen, and how the genre responds to the shifting coordinates of the Hollywood film industry. Offering new insights and perspectives on the cinematic science fiction genre, this volume will appeal primarily to scholars and students of film, television, cultural and media studies, as well as anyone interested in science fiction and speculative film.
| Author | : Gregory Claeys |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2010-08-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780521886659 |
| Pages | : 317 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (866 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature written by Gregory Claeys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a combination of historical and thematic approaches, this volume engages with the fascinating and complex genre of utopian literature.
| Author | : Gary Westfahl, |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Release Date | : 2019-11-27 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781476637563 |
| Pages | : 298 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (375 users) |
Download or read book Science Fiction and the Dismal Science written by Gary Westfahl, and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and government. Its seventeen contributors include five award-winning scholars, five science fiction writers, and a widely published economist. Three topics are covered: what noted science fiction writers like Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, and Kim Stanley Robinson have had to say about our economic and political future; how the competitive and ever-changing publishing marketplace has affected the growth and development of science fiction from the nineteenth century to today; and how the scholars who examine science fiction have themselves been influenced by the economics of academia. Although the essays focus primarily on American science fiction, the traditions of Russian and Chinese science fiction are also examined. A comprehensive bibliography of works related to science fiction and economics will assist other readers and critics who are interested in this subject.
| Author | : Adeline Johns-Putra |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2022-03-31 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781009076913 |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (769 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate written by Adeline Johns-Putra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current - and inescapable - vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary climate crisis. Essays explore the conceptualisation of climate in a range of literary and creative modes; they represent a diversity of cultural and historical perspectives, and a wide spectrum of voices and views across the categories of race, gender, and class. Key issues in climate criticism and literary studies are introduced and explained, while new and emerging concepts are discussed and debated in a final section that puts expert analyses in conversation with each other.
| Author | : Travis M. Foster |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2022-06-30 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781108841924 |
| Pages | : 305 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (419 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body written by Travis M. Foster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.
| Author | : Erik Redling |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Release Date | : 2022-01-19 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9783110585322 |
| Pages | : 712 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (853 users) |
Download or read book Handbook of the American Short Story written by Erik Redling and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.
| Author | : Gary Westfahl |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Release Date | : 2022-09-23 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781476686592 |
| Pages | : 298 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (865 users) |
Download or read book The Stuff of Science Fiction written by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in science fiction of recent centuries. Based on a packet of original essays that the author assembled for his classes, the book could serve as a supplemental textbook in science fiction classes, but also contains material of interest to science fiction scholars and others devoted to the genre. In some cases, chapters offer thorough surveys of numerous works involving certain subjects, such as imagined vehicles, journeys beneath the Earth and undersea adventures, discovering intriguing patterns in the ways that various writers developed their ideas. When comprehensive coverage of ubiquitous topics such as robots, aliens and the planet Mars is impossible, chapters focus on major themes referencing selected texts. A conclusion discusses other science fiction subjects that were omitted for various reasons, and a bibliography lists additional resources for the study of science fiction in general and the topics of each chapter.
| Author | : Ann-Marie Einhaus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2016-06-06 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781107084179 |
| Pages | : 263 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (841 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.
| Author | : Kevin J. Hayes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2002-04-25 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0521797276 |
| Pages | : 290 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (76 users) |
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
| Author | : Darren Harris-Fain |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Release Date | : 2005 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1570035857 |
| Pages | : 248 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (57 users) |
Download or read book Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction written by Darren Harris-Fain and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Age of Maturity, 1970-2000 explores the major trends and developments during three decades that witnessed science fiction's most dramatic progression from subliterary escapist entertainment to a more sophisticated literature of ideas. Darren Harris-Fain suggests that to understand American science fiction fully, it is essential to realize that the current field with all its variety results from the proceeding decades of writings. In addition, he contends that although much science fiction of merit was written in America prior to 1970, the latter decades of the twentieth century witnessed a dramatic improvement in quality, even as the field fragmented into a variety of subgenres and as writers sought to transcend earlier critical dismissals. Harris-Fain discusses significant and representative works, most of which mainstream literary scholars and critics ignore, as he charts the historical and literary development of contemporary American science fiction. the internal divisions along both literary and political lines experienced during the Vietnam era; the influence of the feminist movement and other contemporary concerns; the increasing contributions of female, African American, and gay and lesbian writers; and the emergence of such significant trends as hard science fiction, cyberpunk, alternate history, and shared-world stories. Harris-Fain also considers literary science fiction's relationship to the mass media, the effects the popularity of fantasy has on the field, and academia's continued misprizing of the genre.
