Parabolas of Science Fiction

ISBN 10: 0819573671 / ISBN 13: 9780819573674

Edité par Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 2013

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Parabolas of Science Fiction
• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0819573671
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780819573674
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Sci-Fi
  • Lit Crit

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Synopsis

Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction

As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore how the field of science fiction has developed as a complex of repetitions, influences, arguments, and broad conversations. This particular feature of the genre has been the source of much critical commentary, most notably through growing interest in the "sf megatext," a continually expanding archive of shared images, situations, plots, characters, settings, and themes found in science fiction across media. Contributors include Jane Donawerth, Terry Dowling, L. Timmel Duchamp, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Pawel Frelik, David M. Higgins, Amy J. Ransom, John Rieder, Nicholas Ruddick, Graham Sleight, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.

À propos de l?auteur

BRIAN ATTEBERY is the editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and a professor of English at Idaho State University. His books include Decoding Gender in Science Fiction and Strategies of Fantasy. VERONICA HOLLINGER is coeditor of the journal Science Fiction Studies and of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. She is a professor of cultural studies at Trent University, Ontario.