Science fiction : its criticism and teaching / Patrick Parrinder.

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Main Author: Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Methuen, 1980.
Series:New accents (Methuen & Co.)
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index. 
505 0 |a The rise of science-fiction studies -- Genre criticism -- Working daydreams, workshop definitions -- The scientific romance -- Logical specualtion: H.G. Wells -- The fiction of the magazines -- Extrapolation: Robert A. Heinlein -- The 'New Wave' -- Definition by structure -- Generic hybrids -- The sociology of the genre -- SF as product -- SF as message: readership and 'fandom' -- Modes of rreading -- SF as document: the 'thinging machine' -- Literature and paraliterature -- Science fiction as romance -- Contemporary mythology and the 'literature of wonder' -- Fundctios and formulas -- Domestication -- Self-coonscious romance -- Science fiction as fable -- Social criticism -- Cognitive estrangement -- utopia and scientific materialism -- Galactic imperialism -- Liberation and power -- Science fiction as epic -- SF and the historical novel -- Truncated epic -- Scientific anticipation -- The future histories -- Imitation and novelty: An approach through SF language -- Authenticity and the literary hoax -- The language of novelty -- The absent signified -- Intertextuality and parody -- Entropy and disintegration -- Romance, fable, epic and parody: Lem's Solaris -- The science-fiction course -- The 'two cultures' debate and the student revolution -- Consolidation and conon-formation -- The strange and the familiar. 
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