Science fiction : its criticism and teaching / Patrick Parrinder.
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London ; New York :
Methuen,
1980.
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| Series: | New accents (Methuen & Co.)
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Table of Contents:
- 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.