The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction - Couverture souple

Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819570923 ISBN 13 : 9780819570925

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2011

Synopsis

A major critical work from one of the preeminent voices of science fiction scholarship

As the world undergoes daily transformations through the application of technoscience to every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. However much science fiction texts vary in artistic quality and intellectual sophistication, they share in a mass social energy and a desire to imagine a collective future for the human species and the world. At this moment, a strikingly high proportion of films, commercial art, popular music, video and computer games, and non-genre fiction have become what Csicsery-Ronay calls science fictional, stimulating science-fictional habits of mind. We no longer treat science fiction as merely a genre-engine producing formulaic effects, but as a mode of awareness, which frames experiences as if they were aspects of science fiction. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction describes science fiction as a constellation of seven diverse cognitive attractions that are particularly formative of science-fictionality. These are the "seven beauties" of the title: fictive neology, fictive novums, future history, imaginary science, the science-fictional sublime, the science-fictional grotesque, and the Technologiade, or the epic of technsocience's development into a global regime.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ISTVAN CSICSERY-RONAY, JR. is a professor of English at DePauw University, where he teaches courses in world literature and science fiction. He is coeditor of the journal Science Fiction Studies and the book Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams (2007).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819570923
• ISBN 13: 9780819570925
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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