Science Fiction
eBook - PDF

Science Fiction

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Science Fiction

About this book

This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.

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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780230228146
eBook ISBN
9781137474452

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION Science Fiction: At the Borders of Literature and Genre
  5. CHAPTER ONE Definitions: What is Science Fiction?
  6. CHAPTER TWO A History of the Histories
  7. CHAPTER THREE Science Fiction Writers on SF
  8. CHAPTER FOUR British Science Fiction
  9. CHAPTER FIVE The US Tradition
  10. CHAPTER SIX Utopias and Dystopias
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN Feminism and Cyberpunk SF
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT Science Fiction Cinema
  13. CONCLUSION Science Fiction as a World Literature
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index