LEADER 00000cam a2200589Mu 4500 001 on1157096303 003 OCoLC 005 20200717185100.3 006 m d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 200606s2017 enk o 000 0 eng d 019 1157089410 020 9781474248631 020 1474248632 020 1474248640 020 9781474248648|q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)1157096303|z(OCoLC)1157089410 040 EBLCP|beng|cEBLCP|dN$T|dEBLCP|dOCLCF 049 RIDW 050 4 PN3433.6|b.S378 2017 082 04 809.3/8762|223 090 PN3433.6|b.S378 2017 100 1 Latham, Rob,|d1959-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n2001110054 245 10 Science Fiction Criticism :|bAn Anthology of Essential Writings. 264 1 London :|bBloomsbury Publishing Plc,|c2017. 300 1 online resource (570 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 500 Description based upon print version of record. 500 The civil rights movement and SF's "encounter with the alien other" 505 0 Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Definitions and boundaries -- 1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine Hugo Gernsback -- 2 Preface to The Scientific Romances H. G. Wells -- 3 On the writing of speculative fiction Robert A. Heinlein -- 4 What do you mean: Science? Fiction? Judith Merril -- 5 Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology Bruce Sterling -- 6 Cybernetic deconstructions: Cyberpunk and postmodernism Veronica Hollinger -- 7 The many deaths of science fiction: A polemic Roger Luckhurst 505 8 8 On defining sf, or not: Genre theory, sf, and history John Rieder -- Genre as a historical process -- Categorization and communities of practice -- Recommended further reading -- Part 2 Structure and form -- 9 Which way to inner space? J. G. Ballard -- 10 About 5,750 words Samuel R. Delany -- 11 On the poetics of the science fiction genre Darko Suvin -- Science fiction as fiction (Estrangement) -- Science fiction as cognition (critique and science) -- Science fiction as a literary genre (functions and models) -- For a poetics of science fiction (summation and anticipation) 505 8 12 The absent paradigm: An introduction to the semiotics of science fiction Marc Angenot -- 1 Sign/referent/ paradigm -- 2 Neologisms and fictive words -- 3 Exolinguistics -- 4 From the actual syntagm to the missing paradigm -- 5 The missing paradigm, the empirical paradigm, and the referent -- 13 Reading sf as a mega-text Damien Broderick -- 14 Time travel and the mechanics of narrative David Wittenberg -- First reading: Fabula and Sjuzhet in Up the Line -- Second reading: Psychohistoriography in Behold the Man -- Third reading: The ontology of the event in "All the Myriad Ways" 505 8 Contexts, methods, directions -- Genre history -- Recommended further reading -- Part 3 Ideology and world view -- 15 Mutation or death! John B. Michel -- 16 The imagination of disaster Susan Sontag -- 17 The image of women in science fiction Joanna Russ -- Intergalactic suburbia -- Down among the he-men -- Equal is as equal does -- Matriarchy -- Women's fiction: Potpourri -- An odd equality -- 18 Progress versus Utopia -- or, can we imagine the future? Fredric Jameson -- 19 Science fiction and critical theory Carl Freedman -- 1 Definitions -- 2 Articulations -- 3 Excursuses -- 4 Conclusions 505 8 20 Alien cryptographies: The view from queer Wendy Pearson -- 1 Introduction: Fear of a queer galaxy -- 2 (E)strange(d) fictions: Who goes there? -- 3 Alien nation: Visualizing the (in)visible -- 4 Becoming alien, becoming homosexual: From cyptography to cartography -- 5 Conclusion: An alien cartography -- 21 The women history doesn't see: Recovering midcentury women's sf as a literature of social critique Lisa Yaszek -- Recovering the domestic decades in feminist history and feminist science fiction studies -- Midcentury peace activism and SF's nuclear holocaust narrative 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Science fiction|xHistory and criticism.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118631 650 7 Science fiction.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1108566 655 0 Electronic books. 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 776 08 |iPrint version:|aLatham, Rob|tScience Fiction Criticism : An Anthology of Essential Writings|dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2017 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=2485889|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 00 |d20200727|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW June-July 17 7032|lridw 994 92|bRID