| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 206 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Critical theory -- Science fiction -- Genre, theory, and phases of canon-formation -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and style -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and the historical novel -- The critical dynamic: science fiction and utopia -- Science fiction and the canon -- Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the structure of cognition -- The dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the ambiguities of utopia -- The two of them: Joanna Russ and the violence of gender -- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand: Samuel Delany and the dialectics of difference -- The man in the high castle: Philip K. Dick and the construction of realities -- Coda: critical theory, science fiction, and the postmodern. |
| Summary |
Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Delany, Samuel R. Stars in my pocket like grains of sand.
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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018. Dispossessed.
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Dick, Philip K. Man in the high castle.
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Russ, Joanna, 1937-2011. Two of them.
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Lem, Stanisław. Solaris.
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Russ, Joanna. Two of them. |
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Lem, Stanisław, 1921- Solaris. |
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Dick, Philip K. (Philip Kindred), 1928-1982. Man in the high castle. |
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Delany, Samuel R. (Samuel Ray), 1942- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand. |
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Delany, Samuel R. Stars in my pocket like grains of sand. |
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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- Dispossessed. |
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Dick, Philip K. Man in the high castle. |
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Russ, Joanna, 1937- Two of them. |
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Lem, Stanisław. Solaris. |
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Dispossessed (Le Guin, Ursula K.) |
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Man in the high castle (Dick, Philip K.) |
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Science fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freedman, Carl Howard. Critical theory and science fiction. Hanover : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, 2000 0819563986 (DLC) 99048532 (OCoLC)42463050 |
| ISBN |
9780819574541 (electronic book) |
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0819574546 (electronic book) |
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0819563986 |
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9780819563989 |
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0819563994 |
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9780819563996 |
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