Brian Baker

Science Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22814-6
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 11mm x 142mm x 218mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780230228146
• Artikelnr.: 41311430

Autorenporträt

Brian Baker is Lecturer in English at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Masculinities in Fiction and Film and co-author of Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction .- 1. Definitions .- 2. A History of the Histories.- 3. Science Fiction Writers on Science Fiction .- 4. The British Tradition.- 5. The US Tradition .- 6. Utopias and Dystopias .- 7. Feminism, Science Fiction and Cyberpunk.- 8. Science Fiction and Cinema.- Conclusion .- Notes .- Bibliography .- Index.