- 170 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Worlds of Wonder
About this book
No longer dismissed as "escapist" reading, critics have finally discovered a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book is a long-overdue tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture.
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Yes, you can access Worlds of Wonder by Jean-François Leroux, Camille La Bossière in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism in Science Fiction. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- "Another Dimension of Space": Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Atwood's Blind Assassin
- The Canadian Apocalypse
- Notes on the Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma
- Welwyn Wilton Katz and Charles de Lint: New Fantasy as a Canadian Post-colonial Genre
- More Than Just Survival: The Successful Quest for Voice in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and Randy Bradshaw's The Song Spinner
- Sublime Objects and Mystic Subjects: Some Lacanian Speculations About Canadian Fantasy Literature Via Barbara Goowdy's The White Bone
- "Half In and Half Out of Things": Boundaries in Sean Stewart's The Night Watch
- Mind Matters: Intellect and Identity in the Works of Phyllis Gotlieb
- Coding of Race in Science Fiction: What's Wrong with the Obvious?
- A Scientist's Relationship with Science Fiction
- Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Asimov's The Caves of Steel and Sawyer's Golden Fleece
- Northern Gothic: The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
- Le Nord Électrique, Travel Book
- A Distant Mirror: Ideology and Identity in Québec's Science Fiction by Women
- "The World Is Its Own Place": Denys Chabot's Infernal Utopia
- The Ordinary and the Fabulous: Canadian Fantasy Literature for Children