The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Couverture souple

Roberts Ph.D., Garyn G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0130212806 ISBN 13 : 9780130212801

Editeur : Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Science Fiction Literature.

Organized thematically and chronologically, this one volume anthology and study of the last two hundred years of Science Fiction and Fantasy is unique in content and approach―featuring women and men authors of various ethnicities, and a range of both traditional canonical literature and popular culture. This text is designed to heighten student interest in the subject matter specifically, as well as in reading in general, thus leading students to meaningful intellectual, social, and historic investigations. The material in this book taps into contemporary student experience and places that experience in the context of larger world culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

GARYN G. ROBERTS, Ph.D., is the chair of the Communications/English Discipline of Northwestern Michigan College (Traverse City, Michigan). He was born and raised in Wisconsin, home of Stanley G. Weinbaum and the Milwaukee Fictioneers, August Derleth and Arkham House, Robert Bloch, Fredric Brown, Clifford Simak, Alice Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.), and Peter Straub, and north of the land of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy and Ray Bradbury's Greentown, Illinois.

Roberts received his B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater in 1981, his M.A. in Popular Culture Studies and Ph.D. in American Culture Studies (with emphases in English, History, and Sociology) from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, in 1983 and 1986 respectively. From 1986 to 1987, he taught in the English Department at Mankato State University, Minnesota; from 1987 to 1994, he taught in the American Thought and Language Department at Michigan State University; and in 1994, he joined the faculty at Northwestern Michigan College.

Beyond his family and friends (colleagues and students included), Dr. Roberts's loves and passions include Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, the writings and creative works of Robert Bloch and Ray Bradbury, the detailed and invaluable histories and scholarship of Sam Moskowitz, dime novels and related nineteenth-century fiction, the "pulps," classic newspaper comic strips, old movies, old radio, Big Little Books, comic books, paperback books, old TV, and other related forms of popular fiction and popular media.

Roberts is the author and editor of several books and a range of book chapters, articles, and literary dictionary entries. Subject matter of these includes, in part, dime novels, pulp magazines, 1950s Science Fiction invasion movies, pulp magazine editors Hugo Gernsback and Joseph T. Shaw, Jack London, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Dean Kootz. In 1994, Roberts received an Edgar (Allan Poe) Award nomination in the "Best Critical/Biographical" category from the Mystery Writers of America for DICK TRACY AND AMERICAN CULTURE: MORALITY AND MYTHOLOGY, TEXT AND CONTEXT (McFarland, 1993). Currently, he is working on book-length tributes to Chester Gould, Robert Bloch, and Ray Bradbury.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

THE PRENTICE HALL ANTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY provides a unique range of stories and discussions designed to heighten student interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy and in reading in general. Including works by authors of the last 200 years, such as Mary Shelley, Poe, Heinlein, Bradbury, Yolen, and King, the stories address important social issues, such as ethnicity, gender, war, and the environment. These tales tap into the experiences of the contemporary student and place these experiences into the larger context of world culture. The engaging use of popular media, such as books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and television, provides an all-encompassing view of Science Fiction and Fantasy. This anthology is intended for the Science Fiction and Fantasy enthusiast as well as those new to these fiction genres.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0130212806
• ISBN 13: 9780130212801
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Riccardo Bacigalupo; riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it; ; Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �; Milano; 20135; Italie