Synopsis
In the years after 1950 a new generation of authors began to expand the thematic scope of Science Fiction, while also extending its narrative conventions by introducing ideas from modern psychology and surrealism. Science Fiction shares the new themes - the quest of identity, the relativity of time and consciousness, the overlapping of illusion and reality - with works of modern and especially postmodern fiction. On the other hand, the innovative postmodern fiction of Pynchon, Borges, Vonnegut, and William Burroughs incorporates Science Fiction motifs, thereby blending the two genres. This book, in a series of juxtapositions and contrastive literary analyses, clarifies and questions existing genre borderlines and breaks new ground in the literary theory of postmodern fiction and of Science Fiction.
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À propos de l?auteur
The Author: Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz is Akademische Oberraetin at Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in English for a dissertation on Shakespeare's sonnets. Besides writing articles for professional journals on Shakespeare's plays, Restoration Drama, Afro-American Literature, and Stephen Crane, she also published German translations of two Shakespearean plays. Dr. Puschmann-Nalenz has also taught at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO., the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Texas A & M University, College Station, TX.
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Science Fiction and Postmodern Fiction.
Edité par
Peter Lang, 1992
ISBN 10 : 0820416703
ISBN 13 : 9780820416700
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A Genre Study. New York, Peter Lang 1992. XI, 268 S., OPappband With dedication of the author. N° de réf. du vendeur 117357
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Science Fiction and Postmodern Fiction: A Genre Study (American University Studies, Series XIX: General Literature, Vol. 29)
Edité par
Peter Lang, 1992
ISBN 10 : 0820416703
ISBN 13 : 9780820416700
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xv + 268 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear only. Book is clean and bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Rear board yellowed along the edges. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This seminal study bridges the oft-debated chasm between Science Fiction (SF) and postmodern fiction, two genres that, by the mid-20th century, began to interpenetrate and redefine each other's thematic and narrative boundaries. Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz meticulously excavates this symbiosis through a series of juxtapositions and contrastive analyses, focusing on pivotal works by Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49), John Brunner (The Productions of Time), Kurt Vonnegut, and William Burroughs. By interrogating genre conventions - such as plot structures, fictional world-building, protagonist archetypes, and temporal manipulations - she unveils how SF's quest for identity, relativity of consciousness, and blurring of illusion/reality converge with postmodernism's metafictional playfulness and ontological skepticism. The book is structured as a methodical exploration: Chapter 1 lays the theoretical groundwork, critiquing existing SF scholarship and justifying a comparative methodology to probe genre borders. Chapter 2 dissects SF's narrative DNA - contrasting Pynchon's paranoiac entropism with Brunner's linear dystopianism - to expose underlying structural patterns (e.g., the axiom of reality, reader-role dynamics, simulacra vs. reality). Chapter 3 traces variations and transcendence of these patterns: how motifs evolve, themes expand, and narrative elements (e.g., time, narrator reliability) are inverted or relativized. Chapter 4 ventures into borderline territories where Vonnegut's satirical humanism and Burroughs' cut-up anarchism dismantle SF/postmodern binaries, signaling a paradigm shift. Puschmann-Nalenz's conclusions are not merely taxonomic but transformative: she repositions SF not as a pulp ghetto but as a theoretically vibrant genre, integral to understanding postmodernity's crisis of representation. By destabilizing rigid genre classifications, this book opens new avenues for literary theory, urging readers to reconceptualize the dialogue between the scientific imagination and the postmodern condition. It stands as a pioneering work in genre studies, challenging scholars to rethink the overlaps, tensions, and synergies between rationality (SF) and absurdity (postmodernism). N° de réf. du vendeur 011996
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