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Selected Proceedings Of The 1978 Science Fiction Research Association National Conference
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Book Synopsis Selected Proceedings of the 1978 Science Fiction Research Association National Conference by : Science Fiction Research Association. National Conference
Download or read book Selected Proceedings of the 1978 Science Fiction Research Association National Conference written by Science Fiction Research Association. National Conference and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature by : Tony Burns
Download or read book Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature written by Tony Burns and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature and of science fiction. Published in 1974, it marked a revival of utopianism after decades of dystopian writing. According to this widely accepted view The Dispossessed represents a new kind of literary utopia, which Tom Moylan calls a "critical utopia." The present work challenges this reading of The Dispossessed and its place in the histories of utopian/dystopian literature and science fiction. It explores the difference between traditional literary utopia and novels and suggests that The Dispossessed is not a literary utopia but a novel about utopianism in politics. Le Guin's concerns have more to do with those of the novelists of the 19th century writing in the tradition of European Realism than they do with the science fiction or utopian literature. It also claims that her theory of the novel has an affinity with the ancient Greek tragedy. This implies that there is a conservatism in Le Guin's work as a creative writer, or as a novelist, which fits uneasily with her personal commitment to anarchism.
Book Synopsis Patterns of the Fantastic by : Donald M. Hassler
Download or read book Patterns of the Fantastic written by Donald M. Hassler and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1983 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers delivered at Chicon IV, including "Stephen King in Context," (Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr.); "Narcissism and Romance in McCaffrey's 'Restoree, '" (Mary T. Brizzi; "Harlan Ellison's Use of the Narrator's Voice" (Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr., more.
Book Synopsis Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism by : Ellen Susan Peel
Download or read book Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism written by Ellen Susan Peel and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An addition to the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series, Peel's book addresses how feminist utopian narratives attempt to persuade readers to adopt certain beliefs. Using three feminist utopian novels as her main examples, The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five by Doris Lessing; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; and Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig, Peel examines how belief-bridging and protean metaphor in these works persuade readers. Literary persuasion, often dismissed as propaganda, in fact works in subtle and profound ways. The book presents major techniques by which narrative literature exercises this sophisticated influence on beliefs. Ultimately concluding that the pragmatic works better than the static in utopian feminism, Peel shows how, in novels such as those under discussion, the narrative techniques support pragmatism. Inquiring how narrative form can shape political belief by affecting readers' responses, the author integrates topics that are rarely combined. The book investigates three theoretical issues: utopian belief, distinguishing the perfectionism of the static from the vitality of the pragmatic and showing how the latter creates narrative energy; the persuasive process, tracing narrative form and asking how implied readers match real ones and how readers are swayed by belief-bridging and protean metaphor; and feminist belief, a nuanced definition that accounts both for what links feminists and what makes them diverse. Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism explores the rhetorical and ethical power of narrative literature.
Download or read book Romantic Dynamics written by M. Lussier and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-10-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe. This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration of dynamical models of cosmos and consciousness in works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, the Shelleys and Wordsworth, finding in those works an exploration of the interpenetration of psyche and phenomena. This model, the author argues, establishes a new metaphoric terrain liberated from the classical mechanics of Newtonian thought and more easily traversed with models articulated by Bohr, Einstein and Hawking.
Book Synopsis Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn by : Timothy S. Miller
Download or read book Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn written by Timothy S. Miller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jules Verne Lives! by : Gary Westfahl
Download or read book Jules Verne Lives! written by Gary Westfahl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer. Essays study Verne's various novels--including Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras. Included essays offer analyses of literary responses to Verne's work, assessments of film adaptations of his novels and discussions of steampunk, the Verne-inspired science fiction subgenre that has influenced writers like Philip Jose Farmer, Caleb Carr and Adam Roberts.
Book Synopsis Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction by : Bernard Selinger
Download or read book Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction written by Bernard Selinger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Influence of Imagination by : Lee Easton
Download or read book The Influence of Imagination written by Lee Easton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the potential connections between speculative fiction and actual social change. Through a variety of approaches, the contributors explore whether consumers of science fiction and fantasy narratives can experience a real shift in their worldviews as a result of that consumption. Topics include the utopian vision of California in Ursula K. LeGuin's Always Coming Home, the changing role of women in science fiction pulp magazines, and the representation of progress and social change in popular graphic novels.
Book Synopsis Coyote's Song by : Richard D. Erlich
Download or read book Coyote's Song written by Richard D. Erlich and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of the major and minor fiction, poetry, and children's books of SF and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin. As Le Guin herself writes, "It is written in English, not academese, and will be of interest to a wide spectrum of students, scholars, and interested readers."
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-07 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Women & Literature: Supplement. Articles and books (1979-1981) by and about women from 600 to 1975 by : Florence Saunders Boos
Download or read book Bibliography of Women & Literature: Supplement. Articles and books (1979-1981) by and about women from 600 to 1975 written by Florence Saunders Boos and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ursula K. Le Guin, a Primary and Secondary Bibliography by : Elizabeth Cummins Cogell
Download or read book Ursula K. Le Guin, a Primary and Secondary Bibliography written by Elizabeth Cummins Cogell and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extrapolation written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy by :
Download or read book The Year's Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Arts & Humanities Citation Index by :
Download or read book Arts & Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin by : Elizabeth Cummins
Download or read book Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin written by Elizabeth Cummins and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. ' ... Elizabeth Cummin's [book] is a superb literary study of the American science fiction & fantasy writer ... Unlike many other literary studies of Le Guin's works that simply print unintegrated essays, [this book] has a tight focus & flow that other literary critics would do well to study ... Very highly recommended ... --Wilson Library Bulletin.
