This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. It is evident from letters and other sources, as well as the novels themselves, that the Austen family developed a strong scepticism about ...
This anthology collects many of the finest writings in the "hard SF" realm--science fiction that emphasizes science and technology, often with adventure plots. Included in the volume are stories by Poul Anderson, Ben Bova, Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl, Bruce Sterling, and Vernor Vinge.
This study confronts current influential theories that science fiction is either an American phenomenon or an international one. The study rejects the idea that British science fiction is distinguishable only by its pessimistic outlook - while also rejecting the idea that other designations, such as "scientific romance" or "speculative fiction", ...
Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, "Rhetorics of Fantasy" introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four ...
Expert contributors discuss the marginalization of science fiction by literary critics and the tendency to exclude science fiction from the canon. Science fiction occupies a peculiar place in the academic study of literature. For decades, scholars have looked at science fiction withdisdain and have criticized it for being inferior to other types ...
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