[PDF] A Research Guide To Science Fiction Studies eBook

Author : Marshall B. Tymn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100063907X

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Academic attention to science fiction and fantasy began in 1958, when the Modern Language Association scheduled its first seminar on science fiction at its New York meeting. Over the years science fiction emerged as a popular subject that achieved critical attention and acceptance as an academic discipline. A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies, originally published in 1977, is designed to provide the reader – whether they be scholar, teacher, librarian, or fan – with a comprehensive listing of the important research tools that have been published in the United States and England through 1976. The volume contains over 400 selected, annotated entries covering both general and specialized sources, including general surveys, histories, genre studies, author studies, bibliographies, and indices, which span the entire range of science fiction and fantasy scholarship.

Author : Maura Heaphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1598845063

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For students, scholars, readers' advisors, and curious SF readers and fans, this guide provides an easy-to-use launch pad for researching and learning more about science fiction writers and their work. Emphasizing the best popular and contemporary authors, this book covers 100 SF writers, providing for each: • a brief biographical sketch, including a quote from theauthor, awards, etc. • a list of the author's major works (including editions and other writings) • research sources-biographies, criticism, research guides, and web sites • In addition, you'll find read-alike lists for selected authors. For anyone wanting to find information on popular SF authors, this should be the first stop.

Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441119604

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From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism has offered to the vexed question, 'what is science fiction?' Each chapter of the book includes case studies of key texts, annotated guides to further reading and suggestions for class discussion to help students master the full range of contemporary critical approaches to the field, including the scientific, technological and political contexts in which the genre has flourished. Ranging from an understanding of the genre through the stereotypes of 1930s pulps through more recent claims that we are living in a science fictional moment, this volume will provide a comprehensive overview of this diverse and fascinating genre.

Author : Patrick Parrinder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000378780

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This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of science fiction writing, and assess the history and significance of a field in which critical judgements have often been unreliable. The material ranges from the earliest imaginative journeys to the moon, to later developments of British, American and European science fiction.

Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0262539993

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How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change. The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave New World nightmare. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge surveys the uses of science fiction. It focuses on what is at the core of all definitions of science fiction: a vision of the world made otherwise and what possibilities might flow from such otherness.

Author : Neil Barron
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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This classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786484764

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Science fiction has always challenged readers with depictions of the future. Can the genre actually provide glimpses of the world of tomorrow? This collection of fifteen international and interdisciplinary essays examines the genre's predictions and breaks new ground by considering the prophetic functions of science fiction films as well as SF literature. Among the texts and topics examined are classic stories by Murray Leinster, C. L. Moore, and Cordwainer Smith; 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequels, Japanese anime and Hong Kong cinema; and electronic fiction.